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   Awards
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Pushcart Prize 2022 Nominations

Blessedness is Ours   Adam Clay
 
Poem About America Made from the Beginnings of First Lines of
Poems by Emily Dickinson 
Owen McLeod

Tar Baby To-Do List  Rachel Nelson

That Summer   Martha Silano
 
The Gods  Grace Q. Song

[                     ]   Heath Joseph Wooten


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Best of the Net 2022 Nominations

 
Before I lived in this house  someone else did  Michael Mercurio
 
For Alison, After a Walk  Livia Meneghin
 
Poem for My Father John Poch
 
An Engraving of A Woman Entering an Abortion Clinic  Adam Tavel

Mexican   José Angel Araguz
 
We Buy Broken Gold  Tennessee Hill


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Best New Poets 2022 Nominations

Before I lived in this house   someone else did  Michael Mercurio

For Alison, After a Walk  Livia Meneghin

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Pushcart Prize 2021 Nominations

Prayer with Oaks and Visual Snow Syndrome   Sally Rosen Kindred
Cyrus & the Snakes  Ada Limón
Poem for My Father  John Poch
Britney Takes Ambien  Eszter Takacs
An Engraving of a Woman Entering an Abortion Clinic  Adam Tavel
Detour Ghazal  Scott Weaver

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Best of the Net 2021 Nominations 
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Love Poem   MRB Chelko
(July 2020 Edition)

At Dinner, I Grow Bored Among the Pregnant, When I Am Leavened Only By Botanics  Liz Cambra  
(September 2020 Edition)

Heart, I will return in Spring   Jill Alexander Essbaum
(November 2020 Edition)

Britney Takes Ambien  Eszter Takacs
    (March 2021 Edition)

Rabbi Junco  Jeremy Radin
(May 2020 Edition)

The Mother Jen Stewart Fueston 
(January 2021 Edition)


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Best New Poets 2021 Nominations


How to Make a Deer Collapse   Dare Williams

Thessaloniki, 1970  Anastasia Vassos 

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Pushcart Prize 2020 Nominations

Paris   Mark Alan Williams
(May 2020 Edition)
 
Unfolding Blue   Lynne Thompson
(September 2020 Edition)
 
Tone Problem   Lesley Wheeler
(September 2020 Edition)
 
At Dinner, I Grow Bored Among the Pregnant When I Am Leavened Only By Botanics    Liz Cambra
 (September 2020 Edition)
 
Heart, I will return in Spring     Jill Alexander Essbaum
(November 2020 Edition)
 
Jon, Master of Sexual Positions    Audrey Gradzewicz
(November 2020 Edition)
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Best of the Net 2020 Nominations


Crew   Lloyd Wallace
(July 2019 Edition)


What to Say for Grief   Laura Lee Beasley
(September 2019 Edition)


Lungsong   Will Durham 
(November 2019 Edition)


Habituation  Hala Alyan
(January 2020 Edition)


Letter to My Long Distance Lover in Which We're Ross & Rachel  Caitlin Cowan
(March 2020 Edition)


Elegy for Origin  Caroline Chavatel
(May 2020 Edition)

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Best New Poets 2020 Nominations

Lungsong  Will Durham
​(November 2019 Edition)

Our People Don’t Believe in Tears  Alina Pleskova 
(November 2019 Edition)

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Pushcart Prize 2019 Nominations


Cicada Song   Andrew Collard
(January 2019)

Wheat Field with Crows  Joseph Fasano
(September 2019)

Steam  Mag Gabbert
(May 2019)

And the Kindling Too  James Merenda 
(March 2019)

Our People Don’t Believe in Tears  Alina Pleskova
(November 2019)

Grasp   Sara Ryan
(July 2019)

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*Orison Anthology 2020 Nominations
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Taking Care  Callista Buchen 
(May 2019)
 

Church Girls  Megan Fernandes 
(July 2019)

 
Darkroom  Emily Lawson 
(January 2019)
 

*Tell me again  Dana McKenna and Ben Clark 
 (September 2019)
 

And the Kindling Too  James Merenda 
(March 2019)
 

Escapes  Thomas Renjilian 
(September 2019)

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Best of the Net 2019 Nominations
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In The Next 50 Years So Many Animals Will Go Extinct It Will Take Earth At Least 3 Million Years To Recover

Kelli Russell Agodon
(May 2019)


On the Beauty of the Handbag Hook in Treatment Room #5   Marietta Brill
(July 2018)


Still Life  George David Clark
(November 2018)


Cicada Song  Andrew Collard
(January 2019)


sky. as leaves fall   Genevieve Kaplan
(March 2019)


After a Long Time Married  Sarah Pape
(September 2018)

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Best New Poets 2019 Nominations


Message Taped Below a Park Bench  Lauren Yarnall
(May 2018 Edition)

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Self-Portrait as a Hitchhiker  Claire S. Lee
(November 2018 Edition)

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Pushcart Prize 2018 Nominations


Against Despair: The Kid Goat  Nickole Brown
(January 2019 Edition)


Late Epithalamion of Appalachian Fragments  Gabriel Welsch
(March 2018 Edition)


Message Taped Below a Park Bench Lauren Yarnall
(May 2018 Edition)


Giant Hogweed  Sonja Johanson
(July 2018 Edition)


Tableau Vivant  Virginia Konchan
(September 2018 Edition)


Five Hundred Acres and a Hundred Head Hannah Perrin King
(November 2018 Edition)

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Best of the Net 2018 Nominations
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Non-Resident Alien   Momina Mela 
(November 2017 Edition)


Cut Open   Francis Santana 
(November 2017 Edition)


Birch Oil, Smoke, Pine Tar, Switch   M. Bartley Seigel  
(January 2018 Edition)


Blue Horror   Adam Tavel 
(September 2017 Edition)


Late Epithalamion of Appalachian Fragments   Gabriel Welsch 
(March 2018 Edition)


Message Taped Below a Park   Lauren Yarnall 
(May 2018 Edition)
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Best New Poets 2018 Nominations


Notes for Keeping the Sabbath in the ICU   Aaron Reeder
(September 2017 Edition)
 

forgiving a wildfire   Amie Zimmerman
(November 2017 Edition)

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Pushcart Prize 2017 Nominations


Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Arab Girl   Jessica Abughattas
(July 2017 Edition)


Aleppo   Hala Alyan
(January 2017 Edition)


The Great Ones   Amanda Auerbach
(July 2017 Edition)


Sonnet after Analytical Drawings after Photographs of Gret Palucca   Jake Bauer
(May 2017 Edition)

Tomb of the Muses   Adam Houle
(September 2017 Edition)


Hare Running    Lauren Winchester
(March 2017 Edition)

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Best of the Net 2017 Nominations


 Aleppo   Hala Alyan
(January 2017 Edition)


Fugue State #2   Michelle Bitting
(November 2016)


*Break-Up Letter to My Clitoris   Kendra DeColo
(July 2016 Edition)


Parking Garage   James Hoch
(March 2017 Edition)


The Work, the Opera    John Poch
(January 2017 Edition)

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Tangerine Trees & Little Bags of Sugar    Su Cho
​(September 2016 Edition)
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Best New Poets 2017 Nominations

 *Séance  Brennan Bestwick
(September 2016 Edition)

Bear Witness   Tiana Clark  
(May 2016 Edition)
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Pushcart Prize 2016 Nominations


​Weathervane  Anne Champion & Jenny Sadre-Orafai  
(September 2016 Edition)
 
Bear Witness   Tiana Clark  
(May 2016 Edition) 
 
Break-Up Letter to My Clitoris   Kendra DeColo  
(July 2016 Edition)
 
Hard   Leah Umansky 
(November 2016 Edition)
 
Letter to Larry Levis
  Matthew Olzmann    
(January 2016 Edition)
 
​ Geoffrey's French Shoes   Cooper Esteban Renner  
​(September 2016 Edition)
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​Best of the Net 2016 Nominations


Meditation on Wings and Meeting Gabriel in a Philadelphia Prison    Cortney Lamar Charleston
(November 2015 Edition)


Bear Witness   Tiana Clark
(Mary 2016 Edition)



What Another Mother   Dara-Lyn Shrager
(September 2015 Edition)

Dear   Maggie Smith
(July 2015 Edition)



Lonely is a Hard Word to Use in a Poem   Leah Umansky 
(March 2016 Edition)


Poem with Michael Kors and Christian Louboutin   Scott Wordsman
(May 2016 Edition)
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Best New Poets 2016 Nominations


The Witch of the West Knits Feather and Bone  Emily Rose Cole
(January 2016 Edition)

Dragon’s Den     Anna Leigh Knowles 
(January 2016 Edition)
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​Pushcart Prize 2015 Nominations


go here nothing to see home  Aricka Foreman
(September 2015 Edition)

Driving to St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota  Michael Gould
(May 2015 Edition)

The Etesians Took You Home  Constantine Mountrakis  
(November 2015 Edition)

Until You, I Never Knew the Names of Spices  Tanya Muzumdar
(May 2015 Edition)

Dear  Maggie Smith
(July 2015 Edition)

Partisan War Party for Mahalia Jackson  Ephraim Scott Sommers
(November 2015 Edition)
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​Best of the Net 2015 Nominations



 Dirt   Michael Bazzett 
(May 2015)


shotgun suite  Mahogany L. Browne
(September 2014)


First Day of Spring, First Spring  David Ebenbach
(July 2014)



Driving to St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota   Michael Gould 
(May 2015)



Trigger Words   Dana Koster 
(January 2015)


Until You, I Never Knew the Names of Spices   Tanya Muzumdar 

(May 2015)
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Best New Poets 2015 Nominations


Ithaka   Kelly Cressio-Moeller 
(November 2014)



 Rude Boys Walking Home Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
(May 2014)
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Pushcart Prize 2014 Nominations



Ithaka   Kelly Cressio-Moeller 
(November 2014)

The Year the Wu-Tang Drops  Adam Falkner  
(September 2014)

*Love Poem  Michael Marberry  
(3rd poem in series March 2014)

Seed Moon  Rachel Marie Patterson 
 (March 2014)

Morning Prayer  Nicole Rollender  
(May 2014)

Karaj   Jenny Sadre-Orafai   
(May 2014)


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Best of the Net 2014 Nominations


 Dear Jenny   Portia Elan 
(November 2013 Edition)


Breach   Barbara Westwood Diehl 
(March 2014 Edition)


*Mausoleum   Clay Matthews
(July 2013 Edition)

 What You Get for a Song   Steven D. Schroeder
(November 2013 Edition)


 Fall After Drought  Ciara Shuttleworth
 (September 2013 Edition)


 Water Hose  Randi Ward
(January 2014 Edition)


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Best New Poets 2014 Nominations


Confessional   Jennifer Lighty
(January 2014 Edition)


Love Poem   Michael Marberry
(3rd poem in series, March 2014 Edition)
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Pushcart Prize 2013 Nominations


Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella  Christian Anton Gerard
(May 2013 Edition)

At the Periodic Table Display, Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville, Georgia  Christopher Martin
   (November 2014 Edition)

His interior, thickening  Kevin McLellan 
(March 2013 Edition)

Cause  John Poch
(March 2013 Edition) 

Snow   Corinna McClanahan Schroeder 
(July 2013 Edition)

Fall After Drought  Ciara Shuttleworth 
(September 2013)


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Best of the Net 2013 Nominations


Ghost  Caleb Curtiss
(January 2013 Edition)


Hours  Chloe Honum
(January 2013 Edition)  


Maison Jamais Vu  Jessie Janeshek
(March 2013 Edition)


The History of the Prairie Fire  Michael Mlekoday 
(September 2012 Edition)   


 All and Everything from Your Childhood is a Great Burden to You Eric Morris
(March 2013 Edition)


The Sick is an Ocean, I am Learning to Swim  Jeanann Verlee

(January 2013 Edition)
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Best New Poets 2013 Nominations


Greek Language Lost, Two Generations Ago  Brandon Amico
(November 2012 Edition)


solitude   Danez Smith 
(January 2013 Edition)

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Pushcart Prize 2012  Nominations

Sometimes the Blood Goes Cold  Stephanie Bryant Anderson
 (July 2012 Edition)


From the Heart with Grac
e  Hélène Cardona
(Inaugural Edition, December 2011)


A ponderous house  Brooklyn Copeland
(July 2012 Edition)


During Our Marriage, We Neglected to Care for Our Livestock  Lizi Gilad Silver
(September 2012 Edition)


Traveling Highway 16, British Columbia  Sheila Nickerson
 (November 2012 Edition)


Aubade at 12:56pm  Rich Villar
(September 2012 Edition)


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Best of the Net 2012  Nominations


            From the Heart with Grace  Hélène Cardona
    (Inaugural Edition  December 2011)


Sound or Something More   Kat Dixon
(January 2012 Edition)


Luxation [between frida there is no likeness]  Rachel Eliza Griffiths
(March 2012 Edition)


The Tree of Fire  Ada Limón
(Inaugural Edition   December 2011)


The Air Is Thick As A Tongue,  Jacob Rakovan
(January 2012 Edition) 


Laurel Gene  Amber Tamblyn
(Inaugural Edition   December 2011) 

 
     * winner  ** finalist