Pushcart Prize Nominations

 

Pushcart Prize Nominations

2023

Batnadiv HaKarmi ~ When My Grandfather Was Abram

from The Love of Mortal Beings

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Jessica Genia Simon ~ Even After

from Built of All I Shape and Name

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Nadia Arioli ~ All Surroundings Are Referred to High Water

from Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage

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Gary Grossman ~ Apostrophe

from Lyrical Years

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Anastasia Vassos ~ Nostos

from Nostos

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Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz ~ For Those of Us Forced to Flee

from All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents

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2022

Ann Bookman ~ Shimmering

from Blood Lines

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Allison Joseph ~ Running While Black

from Any Proper Weave

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Ted Charnley ~ For Lady Macbeth, in the 21st Century

from An Invocation of Fragments

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C.L. Bledsoe ~ It’s Snowing Inside My Daughter’s Head

from Having a Baby to Save a Marriage

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Yasmin Kloth ~ I’ve Named These Ashes

from Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation

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Rebecca Brock ~ The Stories They Are Telling Now

from Each Bearing Out

 

2021

Cristina M.R. Norcross ~ New Dimensions

from The Sound of a Collective Pulse

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Menachem Z. Rosensaft ~ Warsaw Trees

from Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen

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Katerina Canyon ~ A Petition for Unrecognized Children

 from Surviving Home

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Linda Neal Reising ~ Emmaline

from Stone Roses

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VJ Saraf ~ Lullaby

from For Once, Then Nothing

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Riley Bounds ~ Doxology

from Hands of Years 

 

2020

Randal A. Burd, Jr. ~ Humblest Apologies

from Memoirs of a Witness Tree 

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Richard Holinger ~ Treasure

from North of Crivitz 

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Andrew Jones ~ Mixtape Composition

 from Liner Notes

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Tom Holmes ~ Hic Sunt Vaccas

from Material Matters

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Peter Waldor ~ Two Stray Dogs

from Something About the Way 

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Gilbert Allen ~ Lost and Found

from Believing in Two Bodies

 

2019

Anna Evans ~ The Villanelle's Villanelle

from Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle

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Carla Drysdale ~ Labyrinth

from All Born Perfect

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Caroline Shea ~ Unmaking

from Lambflesh

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Melinda Rizzo ~ Ravens

from Late Snow and Hellbore

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Cleveland Wall ~ Proof

from Let X=X

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Erika Dreifus ~ A Single Woman of Valor

from Birthright

 

2018

Javen Tanner ~ Eden

from The God Mask

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Cristina Norcross ~ My Uterus Lives in Minnesota

from Beauty in the Broken Places

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Tara Mae Mulroy ~ To Love a Lamb

from Swallow

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Susan Roney-O’Brien ~ 1953, Boston

from Bone Circle

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Michele Bombardier ~ To the Father in My Clinic Who Said No Child of His Could Have Autism and Never Returned

from What We Do

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Sarah Stern ~ The Interview

from We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune