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Round two everyone! Judge Jillian Danback-McGhan said of the winning poem, “The narrator’s interiority and voice make this hypnotic, image-rich poem truly unique. This reads as an emotional caesura, the moment of stillness between confrontation and rejection, mirrored in the post-earthquake calm was both beautiful and terrible in its humanity.” The 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award winners for Poetry by a Service Member or Veteran are: 1st Place “Song of Tsunami” by J. Villanueva, 2nd Place “Sacrament” by D.A. Gray, and 3rd Place “Tea Party” by Shawn M. Jones. Thanks to everyone who submitted!