Jury Citation
“Jeremy Audet’s ‘EARTH GIGANTIC’ roves masterfully through ecosystems, migratory patterns, and shifting seasons to witness the profound and multifaceted experiences of love and grief. We are asked to question the necessity of both legacy and permanence if extinction and death are inevitable. Yet Audet’s poems do not console, they startle us instead with the certainty that we who remain are left haunted by the absence of those who do not. An illuminating and moving read that celebrates the universal threads which connect us, Audet dares us to not only confront our limited time on earth, observed and measured by planetary orbits, atomic particles, and paleogeography, but to embrace it. And as readers we do, without hesitation.”—2026 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Poetry Jury (Jeff Latosik, Zehra Naqvi, Chuqiao Yang) 
