The Stafford Challenge 2024-25 Anthology

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About the Anthology

Over 200 poems from an international community of poets who committed to writing a poem a day for a year. 

Featuring original work from incredible poets like Kim Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, CMarie Fuhrman, and more, this collection represents just a fraction of the thousands of poems written between January 17, 2024, and January 16, 2025, by the poets of The Stafford Challenge community. Inspired by the daily writing practice of William Stafford, these writers—from seasoned poets to those discovering their voices—dedicated themselves to this yearlong poetic journey, and each poem here stands as a tribute to that commitment. 

This collection is a celebration of the creative spirit, dedicated to anyone who has ever felt the deep pull of language, creativity, and the desire to express something potent and true.

Poets Included in the Anthology

Mary Anne Abdo, Amber Albritton, Stacy Allen, Lesley Barker, Jessi Kim, and Pamir Kiciman, After Jackals, Linda Knowlton Appel, Ann Arbor, Samantha Arthurs, Kate Ballew, Leita Barlow, Tyler Barrett, Gretchen Bartels-Ray, Regina Beach, Christine Beauchaine, Sarah Beckett, Anita Bondi, Karen Bonnell, Patricia Brenneman, Deb Brod, Susan Brown, Jennifer Browne, Rebecca Burgener, Sarah Diamond Burroway, Kendall S. Cable, Jillian Calahan, Sam Calhoun, Necia Campbell, Nancy Capranica Carlson, Diane Carmony, C.A. Carpenter, Mary Carter, Jenn Cavanaugh, Dela Coleman-Posey, Tim Conroy, Margaret Coombs, Susan Michele Coronel, Lisa Cottrell, Cathren Cougill, Glenda Cowen-Funk, Barbara Crary, Colette Crown, Karla Daniel, Laura Daniels, Jeanice Eagan Davis, Lee Desrosiers, Tamera Neilson Dobbins, Branwen Drew, Barbara Edler, Whisper Edwards, Aaliyah El-Amin, Leslie Enzian, Karin Evans, R.G. Evans, Helena Fagan, Anna Finch, Mary Eichhorn Fletcher, Judith-Kate Friedman, Tammy Forner, CMarie Fuhrman, Kathleen Fullerton, Trina Gaynon, Pharaohs, Cathy George, Fred Gerhard, Tanya Gogo, Renata Golden, Becky Goodwin, Ali Grimshaw, Susan Haifleigh, Emilia Haley, Jonathan Hall, Katherine Hancock, MJ Hatfield, Christine Havens, Melissa Helton, Haley Hnatuk, Bob Hoeppner, Jonathan Horwitz, Robert Hughes, Marie Linde Husby, Shelli Hutchinson, Mary Imo-Stike, Cynthia Jacobi, Holly Jahangiri, Nancy Jentsch, Kim Johnson, Marilyn Johnston, Libby Falk Jones, Lisa Kagan, Gayle Kaune, Sarah Keeney, Ellen Girardeau Kempler, Pamela Kenley-Meschino, Liz Kingsley, Sabrina Kirby, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Denise Krebs, Michael Lainoff, Martha Landman, Christina Valentine Larsen, M.E. Lee, Cathy Cultice Lentes, Deanna Lernihan, Kath Lieffort, Anna Christine Linder-Skach, Susan J. Littlefield, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Kristinoel Ludwig, Emilie Lygren, M. L. Lyons, Dory Maguire, Stacie Marinelli, Dorothy P. Marshall, Catherine Lynn Martell, Karen McCaskey, Jay McCoy, Tod McCoy, Megan McDonald, Wendy McVicker, Paige Mengel, Abby Meysenburg, Kimberly A. Miller, Paula Baughman Miller, Clayton Moon, Misha Moon, Kate McCarroll Moore, Chandra Tyler Mountain, Charly Mullan, NanLeah, Bonnie Naradzay, Joseph Neely, Will Nixon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jenny Olson, Carol Clemente O’Malley, Heather Oneal, Diane O’Neill, Kate O’Neill, Asher Packman, Donna M. Padgett, Steve Paul, Jane Pearson, Sarah Josephine Pennington, Charles A. Perrone, Shannon Perry, Crissy Anderson Peters, Mary Louise Peters, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Vanessa Proctor, Quigley Provost-Landrum, Melissa Rankin, Cindy Redman, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Cathy Rigg, Kaci Rigney, Richard Robbins, Sheila DC Robertson, Zoé Y. Robles, Adriana Rocha, Joe Roche, Tamarah Rockwood, Shelly Rodrigue, Brian Rohr, Jennifer Rood, Michael Running, June Crawford Sanders, Leslayann Schecterson, Lisa Shahon, Ron Shapiro, Erin T. Sim, Margaret Simon, Andy Smith, Gerard Donnelly Smith, Nora Snyder, Liane Sousa, Kim Stafford, Kristina Stapleton, John Stickney, D. Yohanna Storm, Mark Strohschein, Jessica Swafford, David M. Sweet, Connie Taylor, Jo Taylor, Dawn Thompson, David Traylor, Kathryn True, Gail Hathaway Tupper, Lesley Tyson, Mary Vee, Jayne R. Vondrak, Lynn J. Walters, Cathy Warner, Seth Warren, Crystal L. White, Jennifer R. White, Brenda Wildrick, Dana Wildsmith, Tim Wiles, Jake Williams, Steve Williams, Jessica Wolf, Beth Wolfe, Gloria Wu, Diosa Xochiquetzaclcóatl, Anya Zamiar, Norma Zimmermann