2015 Pushcart prize XXXIX best of the small presses_nodrm

Like discovering yet one more galaxy. - World Literature Today Publishers Weekly in its boxed and starred review of last years edition of this annual anthology commented With large publishing houses facing an uncertain future, the Pushcart Prize is more valuable than ever in highlighting the unique voices thriving in Americas small presses.As David Ulin, Los Angeles Times book critic recently commented on the Ive had a love of these anthologies for many years for their diversity, their range of expression and also for their commitment to writing and publishing.Edited with the assistance of over 200 distinguished Contributing Editors including Guest Poetry Editors Eduardo Corral and Claudia Rankine this volume was selected from over 8000 nominations of stories, essays and poetry sent in by hundreds of presses, a complete roster of todays outstanding non-commercial publishers. The Pushcart Prize has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble and others, and acclaimed by readers and reviewers internationally. The zen thing -- Emma Duffy-Comparone What the body knows -- Joni Tevis Why we must support PBS -- Bob Hicok Madame Bovary's greyhound -- Karen Russell Playing at violence -- Pacifique Irankunda Winter elders -- Shawn Vestal A tab of iron on the tongue -- Sandra Lim If it were anyone else -- Lincoln Michel Annie Radcliffe, you are loved -- Barrett Swanson City horse -- Henri Cole The ice committee -- David Means Breaking it -- Mary Hood Monologue during a blackout -- Kara Candito Say -- Joe Wilkins Calling all odds -- D.A. Powell My White House days -- Thomas E. Kennedy Geese -- Ellen Bryant Voigt The mother -- Latoya Watkins The news cycle -- Daniel Tovrov Approach of the horizon -- Louise Glück The fiction writer -- Maribeth Fischer Albion -- Philip Levine The prospects -- Michelle Seaton My mother told us not to have children -- Rebecca Gayle Howell The tower -- Frederic Tuten How to triumph like a girl -- Ada Limón Elegies -- Kathleen Ossip The last days of the baldock -- Inara Verzemnieks Your ghost -- Hillary Gravendyk La pulchra nota -- Molly McNett Blue -- Russell Banks Visit #1 -- Afaa Michael Weaver Hippies and beats -- Edward Hoagland Pine -- Susan Stewart Animals -- Michael Kardos Elegy with a city in it -- Reginald Dwayne Betts The unfollowing -- Lyn Hejinian How she remembers it -- Rick Bass "Too many pigeons to count and one dove" -- Mary Szybist Mysteries of Thoreau, unsolved -- Rebecca Solnit The streetlamp above me darkens -- Tarfia Faizullah Days of being mild -- Xuan Juliana Wang Like a jet -- Sina Queyras The dance contest -- Wells Tower Mindful -- Rachel Zucker Unwilling -- Nance Van Winckel Book of forget -- Rebecca Hazelton The weirdos -- Ottessa Moshfegh Trim palace -- Alexander Maksik Captcha -- Stephanie Strickland Watching a woman on the M101 Express -- Kamilah Aisha Moon Black plank -- Nancy Geyer Boy. Child without legs. Getting off a chair -- Oliver de la Paz For beds -- Matthew Vollmer The hum of Zug Island -- Jamaal May By the time you read this -- Yannick Murphy Pigmeat -- Amaud Jamaul Johnson John Clare -- Michael Dickman Fables -- Bennett Sims Mimesis -- Fady Joudah Waking Luna -- Aisha Gawad Rape joke -- Patricia Lockwood Ghazal -- Marilyn Hacker Unmoving like a mighty river stilled -- Alan Rossi Superwhite -- Jim White. Presents a collection of short stories, essays, poems and memoirs from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals