It’s always an embarrassment of riches when nom-time comes around. Above are this year’s Pushcart nominations. We appreciate all our poets, and wish the folks above a little extra luck.
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Pushcart nominations
Seven Kitchens Press is proud to nominate the following poems for this year’s Pushcart Prizes:
- Ellen McGrath Smith, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun,” from Lie Low, Goaded Lamb
- Carolyn Oliver, “Foreign Affairs,” from Night Ocean
- Ben Meyerson, “The Ovation,” from Near Enough
- Rae Gouirand, “Marrow,” from Rough Sequence
- Paloma Martínez-Cruz, “Eastside Seminary,” from Other Bombs
- Liz Ahl, “Hoard,” from A Stanza Is a Place to Stand
Pushcart nominations
We are so proud of all our poets, and though we’d love to bring many more readers to every one of them, we have selected the following poems for this year’s Pushcart nominations:
- Ed Madden, “Gold,” from Sebastian
- Pamela L. Sumners, “(Supposing) My Mother Was a Blue Heron,” from Finding Helen
- Deborah Fries, “Half of a Golden Hurt,” from Having Visions Again
- Gail Griffin, “Marvels,” from Virginals
- Darius Atefat-Peckham, “Here’s a Love Poem for Navid the Wrestler,” from How Many Love Poems
- Iris McCloughan, “Promissory,” from Bones to Peaches
Thank you for your amazing work.
Pushcart nominations
This was so hard, y’all. Though I’ve tried to sit down in past years and select nominations for the Pushcart Prizes, I’ve always given up, too overwhelmed by leaving out too many deserving poets. But that does not serve your work, and I’m here to serve your work. So, after some measure of agonizing (I wish I could nominate another dozen), I am proud to announce our first-ever Pushcart nominations:
- Guillermo Filice Castro, “Before April,” from Mix Tape for a War
- Melissa Atkinson Mercer, “The Memory Instrument,” from After the Miracle Season
- JeFF Stumpo, “The Hulk’s Lamentation,” from Against Itself Cannot Stand
- Wayne Johns, “Last Testament,” from The Exclusion Zone
- Robin Reagler, “Air Ships,” from Dear Red Airplane
- Beverly Voigt, “Pittsburgh: The Fourth River,” from Woman of Salt
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