The American Poetry Review is happy to announce that Catherine Pond has been awarded the 2025 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for her poem “Second Body.” We thank all the poets who submitted work; we were honored to read so many excellent poems. “Second Body” will be featured in the September/October 2025 issue.

Catherine Pond is the author of one collection of poetry, Fieldglass, winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have recently appeared in Indiana Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI, and others. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and currently lives in San Francisco. 

The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize awards $1,000 and publication of the winning poem to a poet under 40 years of age in honor of the late Stanley Kunitz's dedication to mentoring poets.