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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 2021The Iowa Poetry Association's Editor and Associate Editors have collaborated to select nominees from this year's Lyrical Iowa 2020 75th Anniversary Edition. The list of poems is presented in alphabetical order by author's last name. Please join us in congratulating and wishing these nominees success. Allison BerryhillSONNET TO MY STUDENTS ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS Come in and make a mess with all your thoughts. Heather Ann ClarkTURTLE SHELLS My therapist asks what else is on my mind. Jared PearceILLNESS It's like waiting for the elevator through meetings or finding waiting for the clothes to dry Shelly Reed ThiemanON THE ANNIVERSARY OF ANOTHER WINTER Tongue-tied with suet and peanut Owl calls my secret name as dusk Dog and I allow him in unshaven, A mirage of deer disappears of the pine bough. Tranquility and like the moon, learn Erik TrilkDAZED AND CONFUSED It won't be long until I'm with the moon Off-balance. Out of order. Life shut down. Midnight memories turn into dawning A girl kisses a boy. Lips stay disposed, Copyright © 2020 Lyrical Iowa Iowa Poetry Association |
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