Three Pushcart Nominations, Best of the Net Nomination

Two nominations this week.  Whee! Didi Menendez has nominated “In Pursuit of a More Perfect Armor” for a Pushcart Prize (my fifth nomination over the years!). This poem will be debuting shortly in the special November collaboration issue of Oranges & Sardines / Poets & Artists. Sam Rasnake at Blue Fifth Review has  nominated “The Allentown Read More …

Pushcart Redux

Another “morning after” post, this time to sum up the Pushcart Prize reading at the Baruch Performing Arts Center to celebrate Bill Henderson, founder and publisher of the Pushcart Press, and the new book The Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. The line-up, reading in alphabetical order: Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Maxine Kumin, Read More …