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
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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
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Gilbert Allen ~ Lost and Found
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
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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