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 […]
The Big, Queer, City by PW Covington
When water tower town Public school health teachers Teach health They teach to the test And, then, small town grads Grab weapons of war And storm the state Capitol Because the test barely touched on Immunology Just chastity And Say No to Drugs Another generation, scared of their genitals And, to stay away, naturally From […]
on your grandmother’s farm – we delivered kids at sunrise by Keriann Gilson
Your grandmother’s house became our summer home, at the time you claimed it was to help her out in her old age, but really it was to escape your parents and I didn’t blame you for that. It was the summer before we moved into our own place, before full-time jobs, and arguments. I was […]
Weakened by Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Weakened Saturday filament strung out in a sweaty bed, eternal thread weaving together a bore-hoard of grimy lung-heaves— treasure troves of resurrection ground into the fine repeated puncture of waking half-crocked to the divided blank of evening and walking full-tilt into the dank cotton hours deathmasked for sleepwalking grimaces where vicious argonauts plunge down the […]
