The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition
Winner of High Honors from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart Prize XLVII includes over 60 stories, poems and essays from dozens of small literary presses .

In last year’s Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, “the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe.” As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.)

The Pushcart Prize won the NBCC Sandroff Lifetime Achievement award, The Poets & Writers/ Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers citation and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the seminal publications in American publishing history.
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The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition
Winner of High Honors from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart Prize XLVII includes over 60 stories, poems and essays from dozens of small literary presses .

In last year’s Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, “the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe.” As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.)

The Pushcart Prize won the NBCC Sandroff Lifetime Achievement award, The Poets & Writers/ Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers citation and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the seminal publications in American publishing history.
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The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition

The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition

The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition

The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition

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Winner of High Honors from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart Prize XLVII includes over 60 stories, poems and essays from dozens of small literary presses .

In last year’s Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, “the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe.” As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.)

The Pushcart Prize won the NBCC Sandroff Lifetime Achievement award, The Poets & Writers/ Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers citation and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the seminal publications in American publishing history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780960097791
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Publication date: 12/06/2022
Series: The Pushcart Prize Anthologies
Edition description: 2023 Edition
Pages: 600
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Ambivalence Victoria Lancelotta 23

Talking to the Hedgerows About Money Jeb Loy Nichols 36

Open Water Ada Limón 39

The Glacier Idra Novey 40

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Katie Farris 46

The Children are Fragile Jen Silverman 47

Dear Friends Mary Ruefle 64

Mantis Gina Chung 78

The Cloud Lake Unicorn Karen Russell 81

1940 D. Nurkse 98

Fire and Ice Debra Gwartney 99

The Observable World Marcela Fuentes 109

Both Sissies Le Van D. Hawkins 116

Loquats Sally Wen Mao 129

The Toll Daniel Mason 131

Bad Dog Molly Giles 142

Sweet Potato Janice N. Harrington 144

The Thermopolium Dorianne Laux 147

Against Mastery Brionne Janae 149

How Do You Roll Kim Chinquee 151

The Kiss Kate Osana Simonian 152

Father Weaver Jamaica Baldwin 169

Utter, Earth Isaac Yuen 170

Colonial Conditions Brandon Taylor 174

Love & The Memory of It Jay Hopler 192

A Brief History of the War Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer 193

Back Banzelman Guret 194

Tikkun Olam Ted Nicole Graev Lipson 206

During the Pandemic I Listen to the July 26, 1965, Juan Les Pins Recording of "A Love Supreme" Ellen Bass 218

Unknown Bennett Sims 220

Bock Rottom Sam Herschel Wein 237

Fire Thaisa Frank 239

Million Million Michelle Boisseau 241

If Your Dreams Don't Scare You Joni Tevis 243

Screensaver Robert Cording 265

Half Spent Alice McDermott 267

White Spaces Lisa Low 283

The Uncertainty Principle Danielle Cadena Deulen 284

Dear Coroner, How Could You Know Julia Paul 287

Slut Days Sanam Mahloudji 288

Pearl Ghazal Leila Chatti 303

Fireflies Kamilah Aisha Moon 306

I See A Silence Ilya Kaminsky 308

Remembrance Poppy Katrina Vandenberg 309

To Cigarettes Nancy Connors 320

Skinfolk Elaine Hsieh Chou 322

A Child of North America Roger Reeves 337

Autobiography Via Forgetting Marianne Chan 339

When the Body Says No But You Can't Stop Swallowing Steven Espada Dawson 342

Too Attached Whitney Lee 344

If You Would Let Me Maggie Dietz 353

Wishbone Joseph Sigurdson 354

The Desperate Place Gail Godwin 362

The Union Waltz Doug Crandell 372

The Land of UZ Aleyna Rentz 380

Confession Elizabeth Robinson 401

Shakespeare Doesn't Care Rita Dove 408

Satyr's Flute Shangyang Fang 410

There I Almost Am: On Envy and Twinship Jean Garnett 412

Poets Elizabeth Tallent 424

Mother Fuckers Talking Shit about American Sonnets Sam Cha 436

Maly, Maly, Maly Anthony Veasna So 437

An Essay on War Jennifer Chang 451

To Sharks Stephen Fishbach 455

Postcards to M. Allison Benis White 474

Things I Didn't do with this Body & Things I Did Amanda Gunn 476

Special Mention 479

Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976 485

The Pushcart Prize Fellowships 493

Contributing Small Presses 499

Contributors' Notes 523

Index 527

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