Pushcart Prize Nominees Announced
We are honored to announce our nominees for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. Please join us in congratulating them. BEST OF LUCK!!!! “12. Carrizo” by Crisosto Apache from his book Ghostword “Delilah” by Raymond Luczak from his book Lunafly “Song for America XLIII Chickens Among Wolves” by Fernando Esteban Flores “Like a Lullaby” by Anniken Blomberg […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Oculus by Stelios Mormoris
Stelios Mormoris’s poetry in The Oculus celebrates the intersections between life, emotions and nature. He writes, “How necessary it is / to lose yourself / in tangles” and takes that to heart as he weaves the “staccato of cicadas” and “the stubble of broken grass” into the “pleats of time” memorialized in his work. This […]
BOOK REVIEW: How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols
The recent micro-chapbook, How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols takes inspiration from a selection of photographs by Diane Arbus. Each piece within the collection is an ekphrastic poem which speaks to one image from Arbus’s vast collection of portraits that together shed light on marginalized populations. Nichols translates the images with powerful interpretations […]
