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Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc
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[2019-]
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From the Book
2019. XLIII. Introduction / Bill Henderson
What has irony done for us lately / Pam Houston
The tornado auction / Karen Russell
Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland
The tell-tale heart / Anthony Marra
The armed letter writers / Olufunke Ogundimu
Carolyn / Steve Stern
Dancing / Robert Hass / Singular Dream / Mary Ruefle
What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? / J.M. Holmes
Lupinski / Myron Taube
Yilan / Kristin Chang
Murder tourism in middle America / Justin St. Germain
The great meal / Jung Hae Chae
The storm / Michael Collier
Kylie wears Balmain / Sarah Resnick
Secrets deep in tiger forests / Poe Ballantine
Barbie Chang wants to be someone / Victoria Chang
A fish in the tree / John Landretti
All politics / Jessica Burstein
My hobby needed a hobby / Dana Roeser
Spectral evidence / Victor Lavalle
I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Vaye Watkins
Like someone asleep in a cinema / Mary Jo Bang
Midwinter / D. Nurkse
The bar beach show / Olabajo Dada
Parachute / Maggie Smith
A country scene / Rick Moody
Face / Tom Sleigh
The Imagination Resettlement Program / Eli Barrett
Christian soldiers / Hal Crowther
Bbhmm / Tiana Clark
No time like the present / Gabriel Brownstein
Skull / David Long
Kernals / David J. Rothman
A flock, a siege, a murmuration / Su-Yee Lin
Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! / Andrew Mitchell
The clearing / Allison Adair
Guerrilla marketing / Sanjay Agnihotri
The wonder of the look on her face / Brian Doyle
UDFJ-39546284 / Rick Barot
Taco night / Julie Hecht
I figure / Kim Chinquee
Faith for my father circa 1980 / Erik Campbell
The whitest girl / Brenda Peynado
The hunter / Gabriel Daniel Solis
One definition of time / Albert Goldbarth
The wall / Robert Coover
Iraq good / Hugh Martin
Acceptance speech / David Naimon
I kept getting books about birds / Catherine Pierce
Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde
Wonder days / Nomi Stone
The white road / Daniel Tobin
A suburban weekend / Lisa Taddeo
Autism screening questionnaire: speech and language delay / Oliver De La Paz
Do I look sick to you? / C.J. Hribal
Field theories / Samiya Bashir
How do you raise a black child? / Cortney Lamar Charleston
Pathetic Fallacy / Emilia Phillips
Quarry / Melissa Stein
Pedal, pedal, pedal / Heather Sellers
Kra-Din / Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Blue coming / Thylias Moss
Codeswitch decomposing into Lil Wayne Lyric / Julian Randall
Transition: the renaming of hope / Molly Cooney
Just the one episode / John Ashbery
Monomoy / Carl Phillips
He / Jane Mead
From "Interruptive" / Phillip Williams
Brace yourself / Leslie Jill Patterson
Powder house / Molly Gallentine.
2020. The arms of Saturday night / Cally Fiedorek
Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn
Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera
The human soup / Maureen Stanton
Arson / Charles Simic
The history of sound / Ben Shattuck
Erl king / Julia Elliott
A fable / Graham Barnhart
Fat swim / Emma Copley Eisenberg
Old school / Allen Gee
An endless story / Louise Glück
Hi ho cherry-o / Becky Hagenston
The almadraba / Maia Jenkins
Say it with your whole black mouth / Danez Smith
"General: unskilled" / Ryan Eric Dull
Monticello house tour / Kiki Petrosino
The peaches of August / Toi Derricotte
The entertainer / Whitney Collins
Reza's restaurant. Chicago 1997 / Kaveh Akbar
Say this / Lucia Perillo
Monsters / Margaret Wardlaw
Stethoscope / Tom Sleigh
Scandalous women in history / Malerie Willens
That's the job / Edward Hirsch
The last voyage of the Alice B. Toklas / Jason Brown
How to mourn the dead / Nausheen Eusuf
Braindrain / C Pam Zhang
The ugly American / Shara Lessley
Walking in fast-falling dusk what is between us besides / Mary Szybist
Stories that fit my hands / Rebecca McClanahan
Rewinding an overdose on a projector / Sean Shearer
Festival / Mary Miller
Human traffic / Bruce Cohen
Hao / Ye Chun
Versal / Francine J. Harris
The important transport / Diane Williams
Footprints in the order of disappearance / Fady Joudah
The cure for racism is cancer / Tony Hoagland
Dearest water / Nancy Takacs
Pattycakes / Claire Davis
Mud Matrix / Hoa Nguyen
The effect of heat on poor people / Farah Ali
Is all writing environmental writing? / Camile T. Dungy
Four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended / Chen Chen
New bees / Claire Luchette
American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon / Roger Reeves
Bad northern women / Erin Singer
The white orchard / Arthur Sze
Double vi station / Jeffery Harrison
I confess: my cultural misappropriation / Allan Gurganus
Skin-light / Natalie Diaz
Flour / Joy Williams
An open letter to white women concerning 'The handmaid's tale' and America's cultural amnesia / Tiffany Midge
Wild pansy / Lisa Bellamy
Stay there / Leslie Pietrzyk
Five and a possible / Alison C. Rollins
Bon voyage, Charlie / Dan Pope
Jailbait / Ottessa Moshfegh
Falling /Ron Sottlemyer
Chinko / Samantha Libby
Draft/Mouth / Peter LaBerge
Citizenship / Javier Zamora
A deliberate thing I once said to my skin / Megan Baxter
In that time / Richard Bausch
In the studio at the end of day / Catherine Barnett
Eulogy / Patricia Foster
Dante on broadway / Hal Crowther
Infidels / Joanna Scott
If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith
Young hare / Diane Seuss
Petronia Petronia Jyekundensis / Jan Verberkmoes
Oasis / Deborah Forbes
Special mention
Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976
The Pushcart Prize fellowships
Contributing small presses for Pushcart Prize XLIV
Contributors' notes
Index
Afterword / Ray Carver.
2021. In the event / Meng Jin --
The master's castle / Anthony Doerr --
Blake Griffin dunks over a car / Matthew Olzmann --
Milk / Jane Hirshfield --
Touch / Poppy Sebag-Montefiore --
Upright at Thyatira / Darrell Kinsey --
Late rumspringa / Austin Smith --
The red one who rocks / Aamina Ahmad --
Fall River wife / Peter Orner --
Entreaty / Catherine Pierce --
A town somewhere / Ted Kooser --
Teamwork / Shawn Vestal --
Iowa / T. R. Hummer --
The samples / Kristopher Jansma --
The rules / Leila Chatti --
Post-NICU villanelle / Joyelle McSweeney --
Howl palace / Leigh Newman --
Vows / David Means --
Composed / Brian Swann --
The golden age of television / Karl Taro Greenfeld --
A season in hell with Rimbaud / Dustin Pearson --
The lonely ruralist / Janisse Ray --
Charlie / Colleen O'Brien --
Object lesson / Claire Schwartz --
Aunt Job / Nickalus Rupert --
Fifty-eight percent is concrete road, 12 percent loose sand / David Wojahn --
We at Old Brids welcome messages from God, even if unverifiable / Annie Sheppard --
Alive / Natasha Sajé --
The book of fly / John Philip Johnson --
Anatomy of a Korean inheritance / Esther Ra --
The missing are considered dead / V. V. Ganashananthan --
The out & proud boy passed the baseball boy / Josh Tvrdy --
Longshore drift / Julia Armfield --
Hoeing beets, 1964, Skagit Valley / Samuel Green --
Marceline wanted a bigger adventure / Shena McAuliffe --
Something street / Carolyn Ferrell --
House of prayer / Alycia Pirmohamed --
Qassida to the statue of Sappho in Mytilini / Khaled Mattawa --
Laramie time / Lydia Conkilin --
Meteorology is the science of remembering the sky stays relatively the same / Inam Kang --
The shame exchange / Karen E. Bender --
On the overnight train / Alice Friman --
On the footage of Monet painting / Samuel Cheney --
Sycamore / Stanley Plumly --
Turner's clouds for Plumly / David Baker --
Give my love to the savages / Chris Stuck --
Childish things / Chirst Forhan --
Adagio / Robert Pinsky --
Return of the blue nun / Madeline DeFrees --
A beloved duck gets cooked / Lydia Davis --
Letters / Ilya Kaminsky --
Freak corner / John Rolfe Gardiner --
Untitled / T. C. Tolbert --
Rivers / Jo McDougall --
The fifth hour of the night / Frank Bidart --
My father recycles / Naira Kuzmich --
In a good way / Polly Duff Kertis --
And I thought of glass flowers / A. V. Christie --
Chastity / Siqi Liu --
It's not you / Elizabeth McCracken --
Remembering John L'Heureux / Molly Antopol --
The night drinker / Luis Alberto Urrea --
A refusal to mourn the death, by gunfire, of three men in Brooklyn / John Murillo --
Governing bodies / Sangamithra Iyer.
2022. Suffering in motion / McKenna Marsden
Every poem is my most Asian poem / Chen Chen
Remembering the alchemists / Richard Hoffman
Reality TV / Michael Kardos
Revenge / B.H. Fairchild
Let's play dead / Sean Ahmad
To autumn / Carl Phillips
Biology / Kevin Wilson
Leave no trace / Daniel Orozco
The holy spirit of the moon / Red Hawk
Housekeeping / Karin Lin-Greenberg
The loss of heaven / Dantiel W. Moniz
The best-ever doom metal band / Lara Markstein
False teeth / Tom Sleigh
Monarch / Carol Muske-Dukes
Our vices / Dominica Phetteplace
My first blood / Rebecca Cadenhead
Father's belt / Kurt Luchs
The real thing / Olivia Clare
The creatures of the world have not been chastened / Lia Purpura
Crime against grief : myth of an age / Xiao Xiao
What I'll miss / Dennis Held
O despot! My despot! / Patrick Dacey
A small needful fact / Ross Gay
Trezzo / Seth Fried
Old women taking about death / Jennifer L. Knox
Midnight is a beautiful curse / Dorianne Laux
Night cows / Jennifer Bowen Hicks
In a time of peace / Ilya Kaminsky
Recon/men / Devon Halliday
Young Americans / Jabari Asim
Image / Louise Gl©ơck
Breathing exercise / Raven Leilani
Sleepers / Arthur Sze
Gutted / Cathryn Klusmeier
Contender / Tracii Brimhall
Mother won't buy polypropylene / Patricia Cleary Miler
Suffer me to pass / Debra Gwartney
Ceremony / Margaret Ross
The kaleshion / Jerald Walker
Pluto be orbit uncommon / Quintin Collins
Elenin / Stephen Mortland
Trans is against nostalgia / Taylor Johnson
Finland / Ron Riekki
Ruthless / Emily Lee Luan
A little like God / Molly McCloskey
On Agate Beach / Holly Singlehurst
Letter from Brooklyn / D. Nurkse
Mark on the cross / Maria Black
Seven flowers / Triin Paja
Muslim with dog / Threa Almontaser
Baikal / Lindsay Starck
Dedicated / Kathy Fagan
Aftermath / Holly Iglesias
Open house / Jeremiah Moss
The crying room / Lucas Southworth
The description I carry in my wallet in case Eve goes missing and I go mute / Bob Hicok
A very great abyss / Pam Durban
Black box / Sandra Lim
A tale of two trolls / Marcus Spiegel
A small blip on an eternal timeline / Ifeoma Sesiana Amobi
Parole hearing, California Institution for Woman, Chino CA / Joyce Carol Oates
Because / Grace Schulman
Lakewood / Charles Baxter
The God phone / Leora Smith.
2023. Introduction
Ambivalence / Victoria Lancelotta
Talking to the hedgerows about money / Jeb Loy Nichols
Open water / Ada Lim©đn
The glacier / Idra Novey
Standing in the forest of being alive / Katie Farris
The children are fragile / Jen Silverman
Dear friends / Mary Ruefle
Mantis / Gina Chung
The Cloud Lake unicorn / Karen Russell
1940 / D. Nurkse
Fire and ice / Debra Gwartney
The observable world / Marcel Fuentes
Both sissies / Le Van D. Hawkins
Loquats / Sally Wen Mao
The toll / Daniel Mason
Bad dog / Molly Giles
Sweet potato / Janice N. Harrington
The thermopolium / Dorianne Laux
Against mastery / Brionne Janae
How do you roll / Kim Chinquee
The kiss / Kate Osana Simonian
Father Weaver / Jamaica Baldwin
Utter, Earth / Isaac Yuen
Colonial conditions / Brandon Taylor
Love & the memory of it / Jay Hopler
A brief history of the war / Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
Back / Banzelman Guret
Tikkun Olam Ted / Nicole Graev Lipson
During the pandemic I listen to the July 26th 1965, Juan Les Pins recording of "A Love Supreme" / Ellen Bass
Unknown / Bennett Sims
Bock rottom / Sam Herschel Wein
Fire / Thaisa Frank
Million million / Michelle Boisseau
If your dreams don't scare you / Joni Tevis
Screensaver / Robert Cording
Half spent / Alice McDermott
White spaces / Lisa Low
The uncertainty principle / Danielle Cadena Deulen
Dear Coroner, how could you know / Julia Paul
Slut days / Sanam Mahloudji
Pearl Ghazal / Leila Chatti
Fireflies / Kamilah Aisha Moon
I see a silence / Ilya Kaminsky
Remembrance poppy / Katrina Vandenberg
To cigarettes / Nancy Connors
2024. Introduction
Sunny talks / Lydia Conklin
Tender / Sophie Klahr
The others spoke / Tim Shepard
Grammar lesson, Spring 2022 / Hayden Saunier
Backsiders / Kathryn Scanlan
Pee stands for prejudice / Zorina Exie Frey
The future is a click away / Allegra Hyde
The dishwashing women / Tryphena L. Yeboah
All over town / Doug Anderson
Treasure island alley / Da-Lin
Ballad that ends with bitch / Diane Seuss
The restaurant, the concert, the bar, the bed, the petit déjeuner / Frederic Tuten
Two people / James Longenbach
What if Putin laughed / Steve Stern
A potato on the table / Mary Ruefle
Conversations / Rae Armantrout
Dreamers awaken / Scott Spencer
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you have a nice day / Hedgie Choi
Wanting only to be heard / Jack Driscoll
Making sausage in the time of revolution / Claudia Serea
Goat / Mag Gabbert
La bohème / Clifford Thompson
The presence of order / Yona Harvey
Fresh accusations / Molly Brodak
The Ba'al Shem's daughter / Glenn Gitomer
Having lost the keys to the world where everyone sits / Kateryna Kalytko
The locksmith / Grey Wolfe Lajoie
Chemo becomes me / Lily Jarman-Reisch
Everychild / Alix Christie
Lake Qarun, Jan. 19, '22 / Sara Elkamel
Travel agency / Krystyna Dabrowska
Leena / Triin Paja
Winter flame / Eugénio de Andrade
Two breaths / Christina Rivera Cogswell
It is once again the season of corn / Onyekachi Iloh
The magician's assistant / Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
Tomorrows / Lakesha Carr
Thank you for the tulips / Lisa Bellamy
Memorials / Tyler Sones
Dawn 2040 / Torie Graham
Fight week / Laura Van Den Berg
Nomad palindrome / Kai Carlson-Wee
Jorie, Jr. / Michael Czyzniejewski
The emperor concerto / Julie Hecht
Self portrait as Mary Magdalene in the style of Gentileschi / Kameryn Alexa Carter
The dropper / Matthew Neill Null
A most generous offer / Joy Guo
The blob / Molly Gallentine
Marmalade / Fred D'Aguiar
Toward a unified theory / Wayne Miller
Butterfly / Peter Kessler
Dear damage / Ashley Marie Farmer
The real India / A.J. Bermudez
Tarry / G.C. Waldrep
Reading Celan in Dearborn Michigan / Hajjar Baban
Where I am white / Andy Chen
Four more stories / Peter Orner
A place I didn't try to die in Los Angeles / Jenny Catlin
The old faith / Rev. Rob McCall
Dreaming of water with tiger salamanders / Sam Keck Scott
Blue / Erin Wilson
The almost bridge / Geffrey Davis
Two halves of the skull of John the Baptist / Jeffrey Thomson
Black land matters : Climate solutions in Black agrarianism / Leah Penniman
Special mention
Presses featured in the pushcart
Prize editions since 1976
The Pushcart Prize fellowships
Contributing small presses
Contributors notes
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