The 10 words for 2023 were:

quiz, squirrels, concatenate, set, phosphenes, clasp, abyssalpelagic, brisk, syzygy, and gadding

The 10 words for 2022 were:
bog, noctambulant, slink, peachy, broadside, spine, wax, mnemonic, cross, and toast.

The 10 words for 2021 were:
palm, embank, sheer, wrest, lacuna, whizzed, runny, mustard, nubivagant, and balter.

The 10 words for 2020 were:
bootlegging, lethargy, eggplant, bin, paperback, carapace, muscle, octothorpe, peristeronic, and vinegar.

The 10 words for 2019 were: velour, pickerel, ensorcelled, scissor, toboggan, weave, gorge, cluster, serpentine, and gnathic.

The 10 words for 2018 were: pith, roric, feckless, transpire, commodious, coifs, rust, tub, frisson and judge.

The annual 2-Day Poem Contest challenges participants to write an original poem in 48 hours using all 10 words of our choosing. The 2017 words were absquatulated, stippled, dank, unroofed, bunk, foundling, bombastic, daguerreotype, begets, and copacetic.

The annual 2-Day Poem Contest challenges participants to write an original poem in 48 hours using all 10 words of our choosing. The 2016 words were salt, becoming, furuncle, bearded, fortune, hinky, animate, fervent, prune, and emerald.

The 2-Day Poem Contest challenges participants to write an original poem in 48 hours using all 10 words of our choosing. The 2015 words were satellite, ham, soaking, lapsed, stencil, mirrored, before, pyrite, faked, and appliances.