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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 2024The Iowa Poetry Association's Editor and Associate Editors have collaborated to select nominees from this year's Lyrical Iowa 2023. Please join us in congratulating and wishing these nominees success (listed alphabetically by author). Poems will be posted after Oct. 1. Kelsey BigelowSIDERODROMOPHOBIA Never did I expect your Amtrak express Because of you I lack trust for men who ask me to board The only thing I can count on Janet CarlSPRING IN TOWN - 1942 If wise Eve had never tasted that sweet fruit, Never knowing winter, Eve could not guess the joy of the hot sun warming If Eve had not chosen life over perfection, But Eve chose. She took a bite, and we became human, God beaming Julie Allyn Johnsonfinalmente roosting in lofty rafters a precarious perch but does not sustain me as one of the elect, no longer riven by sibling guile of a mother's tongue I'll fly as is my birthright Teresa LawlerSilent Night Her car is there. No words are spoken. Pulling out of the parking lot into the winter solitude Lisa MorlockThe Rarity of Eiswein You passed in the dawn The cold had come too soon. And we were left They say seasons cut short Like the golden peach glow And that made you the sweetest. Ashley WolftornabaneThe History of My Backyard This land already had a people when the Europeans came "Seven Council Fires", seven parts of the same They regard the Buffalo as a relative, we saw them as game People don't like to talk about it - too much guilt and shame Keeping the "phéta wakján," sacred fire, aflame Ugly history should make us feel uncomfortable; that's the aim To read poems of previous IPA Pushcart Prize Nominees:IPA Nominees for the 2023 Pushcart Prize Copyright © 2023 Lyrical Iowa Iowa Poetry Association |
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