Awards

Pushcart Prize Nominations (2023)

After Poverty, Witness By Felicia Martínez

GENDER By Ian Powell-Palm

If Revolutions Devolve into Terror By Kika Dorsey

hole the size of candlestick By Karina Fantillo

to the fish market on central and eastway By Ash Chen

When God Lived in New Jersey By Louisa Muniz

Best of the Net Nominations (2023)

When God Lived in New Jersey By Louisa Muniz

hole the size of candlestick By Karina Fantillo

on a kayak in this miami bedroom By Stella Santamaría

Cat’s Cradle By Noriko Nakada

When I say I want to go home By Melissa Ferrer (&)

I Try To Be The Cowboy Mitski Sings About By Kris Cho

Best of the Net Nominations (2021)

The Cleaving By Samuel A. Adeyemi

When I Get Drunk and Think of Palestine By Fatima Sausan Masoud

Calculus Notes on Turmeric By Palak Parikh

the joshua tree gave me its blessing By Mia T. Hamernik

dear eomma By hyun-joo kim

You Might Not Be Struck By Lightning As You Wish By Ellen Huang

Pushcart Prize Nominations (2021)

Sam Crocker, everywhere whispers to us, a promise By Sam Crocker

Colette Chien, i was born into this place a bit of fire & a cancer (forthcoming) 

Erik Wilbur, There’s More Past Now Than Ever

Katherine Vandermel, By the Railroad

Antonia Silva, los lobos andan suelto

Njoku Nonso, Pray the Violence

Best of the Net Nominations (2018)

Metamorphosis By Wálé Àyìnlá

GHOST OF APARTHEID VISITS AGAIN By Bola Opaleke

Hibernation By Nandita Naik

I Believe Him About the Deer By Ana Maria Guay

Apologia By Mary Alice MacDonald

Bettering American Poetry (2017)

For Women Who Are Difficult to Love By Khalypso

THE POET FINALLY WRITES A PERIOD POEM, AND IN DOING SO, QUITE LITERALLY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER By Harper Russet

Prism By Sarah Wang

Pushcart Prize Nominations (2017)

A Kind of Ritual By 岳天明

A LEPER BEGS THE SON OF GOD By Brianna Albers

Prayer in Taino War Paint By Juniper Cruz

Oil Painting By Nikita Gill 

Alternative Facts By Athena Dixon 

MEDUSA WRITES FOR TEEN VOGUE By Dorothy McGinnis

Best of the Net Nominations (2017)

A LEPER BEGS THE SON OF GOD By Brianna Albers

MEDUSA WRITES FOR TEEN VOGUE By Dorothy McGinnis

One-Sided Conversations Between a Black Girl and God By Madelyn McZeal

The River Carries a Photograph of You By Amanda Oaks

Alternative Facts By Athena Dixon

Séance with Lavender & Bleach By torrin a. greathouse

Bettering American Poetry Nominations (2016)

Bill Murray Walks Into a Party Somewhere By Alain Ginsburg

Transition By Jay Douglas

a letter to miss Doe By Erin Taylor

Pushcart Prize Nominations (2016)

ON THE QUEER GIRL FANTASY By Natalie Wee

VIRGINIA WOOLF WALKS INTO MY APARTMENT By Linette Reeman

a letter to miss Doe By Erin Taylor

juntos By Talia Flores

Tongue By Ally Ang

Ornithology By Athena Dixon

Best of the Net Nominations (2016)

Syntax By Lydia Havens

ON THE QUEER GIRL FANTASY By Natalie Wee

Saffron By Ramna Safeer

We’ve All Got Eyes, Man By Talicha Johnson

Your War By Do Nguyen Mai

All Through the Town (On a Bus in L.A.) By Jessie Lynn McMains