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Pushcart Nominees for 2024
(and links to poems)

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We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2024. 

2024 Nominees:

Click on the poem titles below to read these beautiful poems:

 

 

We wish all of these talented poets the best of luck!

 

 

Chapbook Prize 2024: Winners

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We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2024 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February 2025. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our seventh annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Donna Hilbert!

Winners:

GRAND PRIZE
Flavian Mark Lupinetti (New Mexico) for The Pronunciation Part
(selected by Guest Judge, Donna Hilbert)

EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD
Laura Foley (New Hampshire) for Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparents Handbook
(selected by Shawn Aveningo Sanders)

DESIGNER’S CHOICE AWARD
Allison Thorpe (Kentucky) for A Girl, Her Slipper and Yesterday’s Rainbow
(selected by Robert Sanders)

Finalists:

Amy Baskin (Oregon) for Skull

Abby Caplin (California) for Blue Marble

Meredith Kirkwood (Oregon) for Alertness Seems Called For

Robin Michel (California)
for Crossing a Threshold into the Marriage of Our Two Selves

Gus Peterson (Maine) for Undiagnosed

Shawn Pittard (California) for Witness

Stephen Reilly (Florida) for Widower

Trinity Tibe (Georgia)

for My Blood Must Have Something to Do with Me

 

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2024)

Discounted Pre-Orders for
Witness

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Witness

by Shawn Pittard

is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one’s unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided into his own older age and towards a better understanding of his own essential self.

 

 

 

Pre-order now thru Nov 15, 2024

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Discounted Pre-Orders for
SKULL

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SKULL

by Amy Baskin

“begins with the disorientation of an accident which then moves into its aftermath—the squint-eyed way we navigate a world of dark and light post-trauma, trying to survive what happens to, around, and inside of us.”

—Justin Hamm, author of O Death and Drinking Guinness with the Dead

 

 

 

Pre-order now thru Nov 15, 2024

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Hags on Tractors

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Hags on Tractors

by Penny Johnson

— In these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver’s seat—of a tractor that is— and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge of leading this life amidst a male-dominated field.

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Lamplight

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Lamplight

by Cathy Cain  

“…offers dramatic images to pitch opposites against each other. We find sparkling songs and savage blues, lamplight and dark. Her lyric poetry balances shadows of grief and time. Narrative poems, with touches of surrealism, explore loss, illness, and madness. She offers lights in a hospital window across a courtyard as relief.  ”

—Tricia Knoll, author of The Unknown Daughter and Wild Apples

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Chaos & Calm

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Chaos & Calm

by Angelika Quirk—

“Chaos & Calm awes me with its exquisite vastness, the way it distills the scope of history into the intimacy of a life. Restless, these poems excavate the ruins of war and childhood, crisscross the Atlantic, hopscotch the ‘Babylonian glitter’ of famed cities. ”

—Erin Rodoni, author of And if the Woods Carry

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White Sail at Midnight

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White Sail at Midnight

by Ginny Lowe Connors—

“A quality of attentive wonder charges and characterizes the beautifully crafted, thought-provoking poems in Ginny Connors’s White Sail at Midnight. Through these meditations about personal experiences, relationships, and the lives of others, Connors explores the reality and mystery of existing in this world and universe. ”

—Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Author of Common Grace

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