Sparks of Calliope endeavors to nominate six poems each year for the annual Pushcart Prize. Our latest nominations are for the 2022 Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses edition and come from poems we published in 2021.
2023 Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses
No nominations were submitted for the 2023 edition. Check out our Best of the Net nominations, which include talented poets published in the first half of 2022.
2022 Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses
“The Memory of a Star” by Evita Arakelian
“Left Hand Bottom Corner” by Liz Bennett
“Sonnet on a Shore” by David Gosselin
“Past Death” by Stephen Kingsnorth
“The Artist Observes a Dead Tree” by R. Nikolas Macioci
2021 Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses
“COVID Dispatch” by Charlie Brice
“An Art Deco Version of the Panama Canal” by William Doreski
“The Rothko Room” by Anca Rotar
“Pan de Sal” by Chelsea Samson
“Ancestry… for my mother” by Karen Shepherd
“Between Love and Madness” by Deborah L. Staunton
2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses
“Playing Tennis with My Ex” by Diane Elayne Dees
“Disgruntled Thoughts after a Fruitless Summer of Job Hunting” by Linda Ferguson
“From Your Lover in the Middle East” by John Grey
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