Our publisher Grayson Books has announced the nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize from among the authors and poems they’ve published in 2017.
We’re very happy to share the news that they’ve nominated a poet from Poetry of Presence: Anita Barrows for “Lessons in Darkness.” Congratulations, Anita! Well done!
The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize published by Pushcart Press honoring the best “poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot” published in small presses over the previous year.
Kudos to the other Grayson Books Pushcart nominees for 2017:
James Finnegan: “Jacket” from Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Ginny Lowe Connors & Charles Margolis, editors)
D. Walsh Gilbert: “Which Tattoo Identified My Brother?” from Ransom by D. Walsh Gilbert
H.K. Hummel: “Elizabeth Eckford’s Walk Toward Central High School” from Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (Ginny Lowe Connors, editor)
Kerry Rawlinson: “Number 99” from Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (Ginny Lowe Connors, editor)
Alexandrina Sergio: “Every Breath” from Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Ginny Lowe Connors & Charles Margolis, editors)
Poetry of Presence I & II 