Please join me in congratulating Unbound Content’s 2014 Pushcart Prize nominations, listed here with the nominated poems in their entirety: Woman at the Auction House By Angela Carter “I ain’t givin’ nothin’ away, darlin’,” she said as she pressed her stub of red lipstick to her lips. She turned her head to the side, her […]
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vox poetica’s Pushcart Prize Nominees 2014!
It never gets easier, but it still makes me happy! I’m pleased to announce this year’s vox poetica nominations for the Pushcart Prize: Burning a Hole in Daylight by Harry Calhoun Holding On by Jeanette Cheezum Moon by Neil Ellman Saying please by Susan Sweetland Garay Dive With the Living Things by Jennifer Greenholt Because Boots by […]
Fundamentally One
Arif Ahmad’s most recent poem to appear here was Where Are the Mandelas? The Gandhis? (November 2014). Fundamentally One By Arif Ahmad For all our blood-spilling differences How different are we really? The anatomy taught in medical schools, Is it different for Muslims, Christians, and Jews? Don’t we all ave the same workings, the same […]
After the Thaw
Richard Schnap’s most recent poem to appear here was My Father’s Dream (October 2014). After the Thaw By Richard Schnap As winter’s grey grass segues to green And the magnolia buds thicken and swell I open my door and its hinges creak A sign of the advent of widening warmth On the street I see […]
Glazed
Peter C Venable’s most recent poem to appear here was At 5 AM. Glazed By Peter C Venable Last night God anointed creation with freezing drizzle. Trees and shrubs bowed in homage. Dark houses groaned under thickening ice. Roofs sagged. Eerie, this hush– shadows of icicles silently sawed through whiteness until a limb snapped and […]
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