
Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2023
Gnashing Teeth Publishing is proud to submit the following poems for consideration of the Pushcart Prize. Each of these nominees had work published by us in 2023, whether online or
after John Ashbery
The birds opened their coffee klatch in earnest,
chatting the sky from black to blue in maybe
a hundred singing telegrams. I sipped coffee
and eavesdropped on the overlapping timbres
and turns of phrase in their feathered acrobatics.
Pick-up trucks grumbled past, into Wednesday,
more mind-reader than machine for engines
which sounded more like driver’s complaints
than random idling. Amid the light twittering,
a raven sounded a bass note twice. The other
birds stopped. Paused to listen? A long silence.
A second raven answered, more like laughing.
Gnashing Teeth Publishing is proud to submit the following poems for consideration of the Pushcart Prize. Each of these nominees had work published by us in 2023, whether online or
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