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Praising the Beauty of Creation and Making in Poetry
July/August 2025
|Writer’s Digest
Judith Chibante, winner of the 19th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind her winning poem, “Naïve Beauty.”
I've said it before, but choosing the winner of the Writer's Digest Poetry Awards is one of my favorite things to do each year. In 2024, there were more than 700 entries covering a range of forms, subjects, issues, and themes. In the end, I selected Judith Chibante's “Naïve Beauty” for the First Place Prize of $1,000, publication in Writer's Digest, and a 20-minute consultation with yours truly.
Chibante, who has been writing “since Mrs. Thompson's English class in high school” before going on to teach for four decades herself, previously finished in the Top 10 for this competition multiple times, and her perseverance paid off this time around. For me, her poem “Naïve Beauty” was a sonic delight focused on natural beauty.
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