The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI

The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0960097740

The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished staff contributing editors. Series Honors: The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Pushcart its 2020 recognition for “Distinguished Service to the Arts.” The National Book Critics Circle cited Bill Henderson for its Ivan Sandrof “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2006. In 2005 Poets &Writers / Barnes and Noble noted Pushcart for their Writers For Writers prize. And in 1978 Publishers Weekly’s Carey-Thomas Award went to the Pushcart Prize. Reviews of last year’s edition: Booklist - “Resplendent…A perennial must have.” Publishers Weekly - “A trove of fine writing.” Kirkus - ”Strong and wide ranging." Library Journal (starred) - "Fascinating ….A must have for all collections."

Pushcart Prize XLV

Pushcart Prize XLV
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0960097708

The 45th edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Pushcart Prize XLV is continuing evidence that much of today’s vibrant writing appears only in small journals and book presses.The series has been selected for Publishers Weekly Carey Thomas Award, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof citation, and the Poets and Writers/Barnes and Noble “Writers For Writers” award among others.Here are 70 authors from more than 50 presses as selected from the nominations of 220 distinguished Contributing Editors and 800 participating presses.Recent reviews include: “Essential.” Library Journal“Must reading” Kirkus Reviews“Distinguished.” New York Times Book Review

#19 Pushcart Prize

#19 Pushcart Prize
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1994-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780916366926

Letters to Josep

Letters to Josep
Author: Levy Daniella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789659254002

This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.

Sugar Work

Sugar Work
Author: Katie Marya
Publisher: Alice James Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1948579359

Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire, and art itself.

Cannibal

Cannibal
Author: Safiya Sinclair
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0803295367

Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.

Things are Happening

Things are Happening
Author: Joshua Beckman
Publisher: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780966339512

The inaugural winner of the annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.

Song of My Softening

Song of My Softening
Author: Omotara James
Publisher: Alice James Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1948579480

Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.

War of the Foxes

War of the Foxes
Author: Richard Siken
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1556594771

Best-selling poet and painter Richard Siken uses strong, bold strokes to reveal a world abstract, concrete, and exquisitely complex.

When the Virus Came Calling

When the Virus Came Calling
Author: Thelma T. Reyna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996963275

A ground-breaking anthology of over 35 distinguished American contemporary poets and prose writers, written in real time in the first seven months of the historic, evastating coronavirus COVID-19 invasion of America in 2020. In heart-wrenching, wide-eyed observations, firsthand events, tragedies, and reflections, these 44 top authors from 10 states across America document for us the horrors, grief, and heroism of friends, family, neighbors as we watched the disease unfold. Here are moments of hope and togetherness as well, seeking respite and balms. This gathering of Poets Laureate, national award winners, poet leaders,essayists, academics, and short fiction writers is a collection to treasure and a touchstone for generationsto come.