2023 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS

Kevin Clark, “Galaxial Clot” (Issue 35)

Mónica Gomery, “An Impartial List of What’s Been Said to Me This Week” (Issue 37)

Mara Lee Grayson, “For the Red-Brown Cow Whose Eyes I Caught from the Backseat of my Mother’s Chevy Nova, 1993” (Issue 35)

Saba Keramati, “In the Smoke of the Wild Rue Seeds” (Issue 37)

Stephen Lackaye, “Burn the White Horses” (Issue 36)

Jennifer Polson Peterson, “Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe” (Issue 35)

2022 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS

Kenzie Allen, “In Which I’m Told I Have Many” (Issue 34)

Janine Certo, “Portrait of Girlhood With Small Town River and Bar, Circa 1981” (Issue 32)

Cynthia Marie Hoffman, “Touched” (Issue 33)

Amy Miller, “The Visible Woman” (Issue 34)

Daniel Edward Moore, “When the Unlisted Number Was Answered” (Issue 33)

Krystal Anali Vazquez, “La Niña Tiene Una Pregunta” (Issue 32)

2022 Best of the Net Nominations

Debbie Benson, “Ambulance Rides” (Issue 32)

Luke Johnson, “Dead Man Walk” (Issue 32)

Jak Emerson Kurdi, “The Calf” (Issue 33)

Michael Mark, “All Dads at Denny’s” (Issue 32)

Samuel Prestridge, “There’s a Man With A Shotgun Who Shoots Blackbirds Trying To Roost In The Trees In His Yard, Which Is Inside The City Limits Of Armory, MS” (Issue 33)

Alyssandra Tobin, “This Pig Is Big Boy” (Issue 33)

2021 PUshcart Nominations

Michelle Bitting, “Taken By Joy” (Issue 31)

Kristina Erny, “Rats” (Issue 31)

Josh Exoo, “Springtime Joint” (Issue 29)

Amy Lerman, “When We Watched The Right Stuff” (Issue 30)

Casey Patrick, “Ordinary” (Issue 29)

Cynthia White, “Listen” (Issue 29)

2021 Best of the Net Nominations

Claudia Acevedo-Quinones, "Hurricane San Felipe II Made Grandpa An Agnostic" (Issue 29)

Jennifer Beebe, "Bottle" (Issue 29)

Lisa Creech Bledsoe, "Crabman" (Issue 30)

Lauren Camp, "Order" (Issue 27)

Jason B Crawford, "What I Have Learned of Sadness" (Issue 30)

Geula Geurts, "Tzimtzum" (Issue 29)

2021 BEST NEW POETS Nominations

Sarah Dravec, “The Bird In The Ambulance” (Issue 27)

Jessica Morey-Collins, “Selves, Here, Are Irrelevant” (Issue 27)

2020 Pushcart Nominations

Hillary Berg, “’Yote” (Issue 28)

Mary Craig, “Dendrochronology” (Issue 28)

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, “I See Him As” (Issue 28)

Jessica Hincapie, “Coping Mechanism” (Issue 28)

Amy Miller, “Astronauts” (Issue 28)

Laura Villareal, “Heart Attack” (Issue 28)

2020 BEST of the Net NOMINATIONS

Ronda Piszk Broatch, “Reading Mary Oliver’s ‘White Owl Flies In And Out Of The Field’ At My Mother’s Funeral” (Issue 26)

Stephanie Yue Duhem, “Nom Et Nom” (Issue 25)

Cara Waterfall, “Lions’ Lament” (Issue 24)

Erica Lee Braverman, “From Mass Hysteria - Empathy (Margie Fitzsimmons)” (Issue 23)

A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, “Autopsy” (Issue 25)

Michael Chang, “Dior, Homie” (Issue 26)

2020 BEST NEW POETS NOMINATIONS

T.J. McLemore, “Deer Camp, Zavala County” (Issue 23)

Lisa Schapiro Flynn, “The Horse Latitudes” (Issue 23)

2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Ella Flores, “Asparagus Clouds (Asperitas)” (Issue 22)

Alexandra Mattraw, “We Are Biologically Responsible” (Issue 24)

T.J. McLemore, “Deer Camp, Zavala County” (Issue 23)

Susannah Violette, “Blackbird Counts” (Issue 21)

Varun Ravindran, “Schubert’s Moments Musicaux No. 2” (Issue 21)

Lisa Schapiro Flynn, “The Horse Latitudes” (Issue 23)

2019 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

Kristene Kaye Brown, “Requiem in November with Kelptothermy” (Issue 19)

Mitchell Glazier, “Honeybun” (Issue 21)

Veronica Kornberg, “Sea Urchin” (Issue 21)

Erin Malone, “Archive” (Issue 20)

Michelle Meier, “Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners, 10th Edition, 1924 (#1)” (Issue 20)

Nicole Rollender, “Littlest Bones” (Issue 22)

2019 BEST NEW POETS NOMINATIONS

Bo Schwabacher, “An Adopted Korean Girl's New Year's Wish For Her Birth Mother” (Issue 18)

Jennifer Manthey, “Puer Malus” (Issue 19)

2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Dana Koster, “When My Father Was A Private Investigator” (Issue 17)

Erin Malone, “My Father Wasn’t A Hunter” (Issue 20)

Jennifer Manthey, “Puer Malus” (Issue 19)

Laura Read, “Jellyfish” (Issue 18)

Hayden Saunier, “Cold Morning With New Catastrophes” (Issue 18)

Nancy Lynée Woo, “The Dying Season” (Issue 19)

2018 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, "Someday I'll Love Myself See-Through" (Issue 15)

Chelsea Dingman,"Self-Portrait As God With A Stillborn Inside" (Issue 16)

Benjamin Gucciardi, "Tejon Ranch Sonata: 2032" (Issue 15)

Abby E. Murray,"Why Women Write Poems For Their Sons" (Issue 17)

Bo Schwabacher, "An Adopted Korean Girl's New Year's Wish For Her Birth Mother" (Issue 18)

John Sibley Williams,"Speaking Of The Coal Bed My Father’s Father Fed To Keep The World Lit" (Issue 17)

2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Kelly Cressio-Moeller, "American Landscape with Chalk Outlines" (Issue 13)

Jess Feldman, "I Summered at the Boys Camp" (Issue 13)

Jacqueline He, "Mollusk Threnody" (Issue 16)

Emma Hine, "Spring Break at Port Aransas" (Issue 14)

Erin Malone, "Biography" (Issue 15

Owen McLeod, "Northeast Kingdom" (Issue 14)

 

2017 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

Emily Alexander, "A Few Things, A Bicycle, And A Love Poem" (Issue 11)

Andres Cerpa, "At The Castle Of St. Ferran" (Issue 14)

K.T. Landon, "To My Husband, To Make Much Of Time" (Issue 13)

Anna Meister, "Titrate" (Issue 14)

Annette Oxindine, "10th Grade Honors" (Issue 13)

Nancy Reddy, "St. James At The Ascension Parish Drive-In" (Issue 12)

 

2017 Best New Poets Nominations

Kate Gaskin, "Pastoral" (Issue 9)

Jessica Nordell, "Supersaturate" (Issue 9)

 

2016 PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS

Annah Browning, "Spell For A Lover" (Issue 12)

Jenny Grassl, "Ye Weigh The Violence Of Your Hands In The Earth" (Issue 10)

Clare Paniccia, "Poem For The Horse Phedras De Blondel" (Issue 10)

Rachel Sahaidachny, "Childhood" (Issue 12)

Sarah Wolfson, "From Above A Lambing" (Issue 11)

Maya Jewell Zeller, "For Danelle…" (Issue 12)

 

2016 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

Sara Biggs Chaney, "On Justice" (Issue 10)

Kate Gaskin, "Homecoming" (Issue 9)

Nicole Greaves, "My Mother's Dresden Teacup" (Issue 8)

Jessica Nordell, "Supersaturate" (Issue 9)

Saara Myrene Raapana, "Self-Portrait As Elly The Doll" (Issue 7)

Sarah J. Sloat, "Indoor Horses" (Issue 9)

 

2015 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Erin Adair-Hodges, "Domestic Geography" (Issue 7)

Jackson Holbert, "For Katie, When I Was 12" (Issue 7)

Jane Huffman, "Mare Skull" (Issue 7)

Alexandra Lytton Regalado, "La Jarra" (Issue 8)

Adam Tavel, "When We Were Very Young" (Issue 6)

Jennifer Whitaker, "Mother’s Foxes" (Issue 5)

 

2015 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

Gabrielle Bates, "Persephone In Alabama With A Pomegranate" (Issue 6)

Doug Paul Case, "Pastoral With Boy And Laundry" (Issue 6)

Rachel Ronquillo Gray, "Kelly The Killer Kapowski" (Issue 5)

Amorak Huey, "Self-Portrait Following A Trail Of Reese's Pieces" (Issue 5)

Mike Soto,"[When The Firing Squad Lined Up, Honey]" (Issue 6)

Mai Der Vang, "Terminus" (Issue 4)

 

2014 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Neil Aitken, "Float" (Issue 3)

Amanda Auchter, "La Llorona" (Issue 1)

MRB Chelko, "Prayer" (Issue 1)

Carrie Meadows, "Like A Saw" (Issue 4)

Rachel Richardson, "Of Whales…" (Issue 4)

William Kelley Woolfitt, "The Foot Washer" (Issue 1)

 

2014 Best Of The Net Nominations

Amanda Auchter, "Sitting Next To My Brother On His Last Fourth Of July" (Issue 1)

Emily A. Benton, "In Lieu Of An Altar" (Issue 2)

Mary Lou Buschi, "Birthday Party In A Strange Town" (Issue 1)

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, "Oriel Lane" (Issue 2)

Stephanie Kartalopoulos, "A Memory From The Year Of My Great Anomaly" (Issue 2)

William Kelley Woolfitt, "H.D. At Point Pleasant Beach" (Issue 1)

 

 

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