10/13/2026
A slightly belated congratulations to Caki Wilkinson, recipient of the Sewanee Review's 2026 Aiken Taylor Award! We've known she was award-worthy for 13 years now, as Caki was the winner of the 3rd annual Frost Farm Metrical Poetry Award in 2013.
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/caki-wilkinson-receive-2026-aiken-taylor-award
And the winner of the Frost Farm Prize is....Caki Wilkinson! Congrats, Caki! We look forward to hearing you read in June at the Frost Farm. Here are details including recognition of three poems which won honorable mentions.
The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and the Hyla Brook Poets today announced the winner of the Third Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry is Caki Wilkinson of Sewanee, Tennessee, for her poem, "Arts & Crafts."
The prize was judged by prize-winning poet and translator Catherine Tufariello. Wilkinson receives $1,000 and will be the featured reader at The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, on June 13, 2013. Her winning poem will be published in The Evansville Review.
Commenting about this year’s winning poem,Tufariello said: "Arts and Crafts” stood out for me on a first read because of its verve and virtuosity. Far from being daunted by the fiendish constraints of rhymed dimeter, Caki Wilkinson seems to relish them. In a few deft strokes, Wilkinson creates a lively and opinionated character who disparages modern art as "poppycock" for privileging concepts over things. This craft artist prefers the “material” craft of origami to “ethereal” abstractions. But Wilkinson hints that the relationship between arts and crafts is not so simple. In the final stanza, the crafter of paper birds “makes the air”--and what could be more ethereal than air? “Arts and Crafts” stayed with me, and finally floated to the top, because of the way its tightly folded stanzas unfold with rereading.
Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collection Circles Where the Head Should Be, which won the 2010 Vassar Miller Prize. Her second collection, The Stone Museum, won the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books and is forthcoming in 2014. She's an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
“The Frost Farm Prize is one of the few contests that celebrates poets working in form, and I feel very glad and lucky to be among its list of winners,” Wilkinson said. “I can't wait to visit the Frost Farm later this summer!”
Tufariello read all the anonymous entries – more than 500 -- and, in addition to selecting the winner, chose three poems for special recognition as honorable mentions:
• "The Bird in the Bathroom" by Meredith Bergmann of New York City
• "At the House" by Thomas Carper of Cornish, Maine
• "Spilled Milk" by Sydney Lea of Newbury, Vermont
