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About Pushcart Prize NominationsThe Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in their annual collections. Winners of the Prize have included the likes of Charles Simic, Robert Pinsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford and John Updike, to name only a handful. No wonder simply being nominated for a Pushcart makes you feel as if you've won something. Each fall, editors from small magazines and independent book presses worldwide are invited to submit up to six nominations. The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels. Translations, reprints and both traditional and experimental writing are also welcome. Announcing IPA's Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2023The Iowa Poetry Association's Editor and Associate Editors have collaborated to select nominees from this year's Lyrical Iowa 2022. Please join us in congratulating and wishing these nominees success (listed alphabetically by author).
Christopher HunterLOUISA, AGE 6, AT REST Louisa alighting into place She twists with surpassing grace She folds her knees, Susan J KochSOFIA I cannot disremember John MitchellNICHOLAS II The ghost of the Tsar walks. Choirs sang at his birth, Death crowned him at his birth, Alise PalmerBELTANE A boy green shouldered, grows His eyes are the color of home - His laughter cannot be Rose PostmaON TELLING MY MOTHER I AM PREGNANT AGAIN My mother, who spent the day after my birth trying to decide but went on to have eight more, says: the doctors will tell you scrubbed from the slick surface of every sensory pathway a school bus window on a thick tule fog morning like the letters you traced with the tip of your cold finger to reveal them again and again, waiting to spell out beneath the ice on a Canadian lake, like a knot To read poems of previous IPA Pushcart Prize Nominees:IPA Nominees for the 2022 Pushcart Prize Copyright © 2021 Lyrical Iowa Iowa Poetry Association |
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