2014-2015 poets were selected anonymously by judges from outside the Mankato area.
Up to 3rd grade
- First Place: City Traffic – Lottie Holz
- Second Place: The Trees – Lottie Holz
- Third Place: Yellow Submarine? – Quinn Mackie
- Love – Grace Mackie
- Art – Quinn Mackie
Grades 4-7
- First Place: The Place Below the Rainbow – Gretl Holz
- Second Place: Fire and Ice – Maddie Ceminsky
- Third Place: The Nightlight of the Sky – Maddie Ceminsky
- Youth Day – Gabe Crispin
- Hummingbird – Emily Schanbacher
- Snow – Hannah Leraas
- Escape the Rain – Maddie Ceminsky
Adult – Humor
- First Place: To Ferdinand, The Omnivore – Meredith Cook
- Second Place: December Morning – Ed Brekke-Kramer
- Third Place: Bikers and Hikers – Ed Brekke-Kramer
- Magical World Of Books – Terri DeGezelle
Adult – Serious
- First Place: Still Sleeping – Laura Murray
- Second Place: EQUIPOISE – Susan Stevens Chambers
- Third Place: Midnight Freight – Ed Brekke-Kramer
- Bandwagon – Audrey Kletscher Helbling
- My Best Friend – John Just Jr.
- Letting Go – Shirley Ensrud
- Diamonds in the Grass – Shirley Ensrud
- Fabulous Falls – Rosy McGregor
- Open Morning Window – Henry Panowitsch
- Request – Shirley Ensrud
- Autumnal Circle – Susan Stevens Chambers
- Murmuration – James Dontje
- Glide Path – James Dontje
- Summer Soda – Derek Liebertz
- Spring 2013 – Sandra Neubauer
- Kissing a Cowboy – Yvonne Cariveau
- Loon – Yvonne Cariveau
- Prairie Voices – Ed Brekke-Kramer
- December 26, 1862 Mankato – Ed Brekke-Kramer
Notable Poets
- Fingers – John Calvin Rezmerski
- Writ in the Style of Rex MacBeth – Dawn Schaefer
- Dead Poet – Rex MacBeth