The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepts one-poem submissions and honors poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly eighteen years. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame who left behind nine books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, four children’s books, five anthologies, a bestselling academic novel, a translation of Goethe’s Faust, Part I, and a translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, produced on Broadway by The Actors’ Studio.
The 2024 competition was judged by poet Logen Cure.
Winner: Prick of the Dark in Swain County Cemetery by May Alice Dixon
Runner-Up: A Toucan’s Beak Retains Its Colors Years After Death by Jackson Benson
Honorable Mention: Moving Sidewalk by Lee Stockdale