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The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press
Pushcart Press

Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually....
 that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small press
Small press

Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts....
es over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.

The founding editors are Anais Nin
Anaïs Nin

Ana?s Nin was a Cuban-France author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death....
, Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster ?Bucky? Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa International....
, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish

BiographyGordon Jay Lish is an United States writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Richard Ford....
, Harry Smith
Harry Smith

Harry Smith may refer to:* Harry Everett Smith , American magus, archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, Bohemian, and Kabbalist...
, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. Reed is a well known African-American writer of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka, is controversial....
, Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an USA literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature....
, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s....
, Paul Engle
Paul Engle

Paul Engle was a noted American poet, writer, copyediting, and novelist. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program , both at the University of Iowa....
, Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Ellison was a scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man , which won the National Book Award in 1953 in literature....
, Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price is an United States novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship....
, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris
Richard Morris

Richard Morris may refer to:* Richard Morris , American poet and science writer* Richard Morris * Richard Morris , English philologist, Anglican Priest and writer...
, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, and William Phillips
William Phillips

There have been a number of people named William Phillips:*William Phillips , artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War...
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The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press
Pushcart Press

Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually....
 that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small press
Small press

Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts....
es over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.

The founding editors are Anais Nin
Anaïs Nin

Ana?s Nin was a Cuban-France author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death....
, Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster ?Bucky? Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa International....
, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish

BiographyGordon Jay Lish is an United States writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Richard Ford....
, Harry Smith
Harry Smith

Harry Smith may refer to:* Harry Everett Smith , American magus, archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, Bohemian, and Kabbalist...
, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. Reed is a well known African-American writer of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka, is controversial....
, Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an USA literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature....
, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s....
, Paul Engle
Paul Engle

Paul Engle was a noted American poet, writer, copyediting, and novelist. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program , both at the University of Iowa....
, Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Ellison was a scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man , which won the National Book Award in 1953 in literature....
, Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price is an United States novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship....
, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris
Richard Morris

Richard Morris may refer to:* Richard Morris , American poet and science writer* Richard Morris * Richard Morris , English philologist, Anglican Priest and writer...
, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, and William Phillips
William Phillips

There have been a number of people named William Phillips:*William Phillips , artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War...
.

Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize Anthologies were: Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker was an United States experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, postmodernism and Sex positive feminism writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation, she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S....
, Rick Bass
Rick Bass

Rick Bass is a critically-acclaimed United States writer and an environmental activist.Raised the son of a geologist in Texas, Bass studied petroleum geology at Utah State University....
, Charles Baxter, Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston

Bruce Boston is an United States speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A....
, Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....
, Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover

}Joshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Acad...
, Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus was an United States short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer....
, Seán Mac Falls
Seán Mac Falls

Se?n Mac Falls is an Irish poet.Belonging to no group or movement and operating outside of literary fashions, his brand of symbolist poetry can, at first reading, appear difficult....
, William Monahan
William Monahan

William Monahan is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, novelist, and former journalist. Before his screen-writing career he worked as a short story writer, essayist and critic for publications in and around New York city, among them the New York Press, The New York Post, Talk , and Bookforum....
, Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
, Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (author)

Tim O'Brien is an United States novelist who mainly writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact the war had on the American soldiers who fought there....
, Peter Orner
Peter Orner

Peter Orner is an United States writer of fiction. He is the author of a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and the short story collection Esther Stories ....
, Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She is the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress....
, and Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson

Mona E. Simpson is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Demographics of Syria father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali....
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XXXII Edition Contents

"Cartagena" by Nam Le
Nam Le

Nam Le is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Huntington Beach, California, California.On March 3 2006, Le won the World Poker Tour World Poker Tour season 4 results Bay 101 Shooting Star event....
, "Those Who Clean After" by Charles Simic
Charles Simic

Du?an ?Charles? Simic is a Serbs-American poet, and co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007....
, "Hyacinthe and the Bear" by Paul Simmer, "War Lullaby" by Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke is an United States writer and poet, and a contributing writer for the online magazine Slate Magazine and, along with Dan Chiasson, is poetry editor for The Paris Review; she is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times....
, "Goats" by Rick Bass
Rick Bass

Rick Bass is a critically-acclaimed United States writer and an environmental activist.Raised the son of a geologist in Texas, Bass studied petroleum geology at Utah State University....
, "Man at the Moma" by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" by Lydia Peele, "Shelling the Pecans" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana-Native Americans in the United States poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years....
, "Children of Cain" by Jeff P. Jones, "Sloan-Kettering" by Lynn Shapiro, "Luck Chow Fun" by Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is an United States novelist and short story writer....
, "Gulf Music" by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary criticism, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress....
, "Confession for Raymond Good Bird" by Melanie Rae Thon
Melanie Rae Thon

Melanie Rae Thon is an United States writer. Thon has received grants from the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Mrs....
, "Waves" by Grace Schulman, "Juice" by Paul Allen, "Bon Voyage" by Tony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland

Anthony Dey Hoagland is an United States poet and writer....
, "Nowhere" by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
, "Note to a Pine Ridge Girl Who Can No Long Read" by Adrian C. Louis
Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis is a Lovelock Paiute author from Nevada now living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He has taught at Oglala Lakota College....
, "The Dinner Party" by Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world....
, "The Best Jeweler" by Clancy Martin, "Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf" by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is a writer/essayist from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art....
, "We Started Home, My Son and I" by James Harms, "Departure" by Andrew J. Porter
Andrew J. Porter

Andrew J. Porter is the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press....
, "Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes" by Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch an United States poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City ...
, "18 1/2" by Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler Jr. is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993 in literature....
, "Skinny-Dipping with Pat Nixon" by David Kirby
David Kirby (poet)

David Kirby is an United States poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English studies at Florida State University .Kirby obtained his Ph.D....
, "August/No Rain" by Deborah Keenan, "The Dead Fish Museum" by Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D'Ambrosio

Charles D'Ambrosio is an American short story writer and essayist. He has published two collections of short stories, The Point and The Dead Fish Museum ....
, "What For" by Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern is an United States poet.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States to Harry and Ida Barach Stern, he was educated in the Pittsburgh Public Schools....
, "A Genius for Grief: Memories of Saul Bellow" be Herbert Gold
Herbert Gold

Herbert Gold is an United States Novel....
, "Diacritical Remarks" by G. C. Waldrep, "Himmelen" by Heidi Shayla, "On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman" by John Bradley, "Shepherdess" by Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon

'Dan Chaon' is an United States author. His best-selling first novel was You Remind Me of Me . His short-story collections Fitting Ends and Among the Missing were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award, and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association and ...
, "To the Sea at Cadiz" by Philip Levine
Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning United States poet. He taught for many years at California State University, Fresno. More recently he is the Distinguished Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing Program at New York University....
, "Overwintering in Fairbanks" by Erica Keiko Iseri, "Models of Passion and Pain" by Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman

Eleanor Lerman is an United States poet, novelist, and short story writer.Born and raised in Bronx and Far Rockaway, she is a lifelong New Yorker....
, "Black Olives" by Michael Waters, "The Bridge" by Tiphanie Yanique, "The Method" by Marvin Bell
Marvin Bell

Marvin Bell is an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa.Bell was born in New York City and raised in Center Moriches, Long Island....
, "Fine Distinctions" by Barbara Hurd, "Seven Marys" by Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is an United States poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to China parents.His great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor....
, "Unassigned Territory" by Stephanie Powell Watts, "Flickers of Light Become the Movement of Thousands" by Greta Wrolstad, "Fathead's Hard Times" by W. S. Di Piero, "Bicameral" by Linda Gregerson
Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson is an United States poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan . Her books of poetry include Magnetic North , Waterborne , The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep , and Fire in the Conservatory ....
, "Lotto" by Anna Solomon, "Rear View Mirror" by Joan Murray
Joan Murray

Joan Murray is an United States poet.She graduated from Hunter College and later earned an M.A. from New York University. She has been the poet in residence at the New York State Writer's Institute as well as spending time at Yaddo, an artist's colony in upstate New York....
, "The Book of Wilson" by Andrew Rice, "The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity" by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist....
, "Mulatto" by Roxane Beth Johnson, "Pampkin's Lament" by Peter Orner
Peter Orner

Peter Orner is an United States writer of fiction. He is the author of a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and the short story collection Esther Stories ....
, "Growing Wings" by Robert Bly
Robert Bly

Robert Bly is an United States poet, author, activism and leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement in the United States....
, "Mercy" by Pinckney Benedict
Pinckney Benedict

Pinckney Benedict is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work often reflects his Appalachian background....
, "Stick Figure" by Gary Short, "The Subculture of the Wrongly Accused" by Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss

Thylias Moss is an United States poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children?s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to her work in Limited Fork Theory....
, "The Dome" by Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser is an United States novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer....
, "Back to the Country with Pulitzer" by Liam Rector
Liam Rector

Liam Rector was an American poet, essayist and educator. He had administered literary programs at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs , the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Folger Shakespeare Library....
, "Bear Story" by Sage Marsters, "Power Point (I)" by Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English....
, "Blessing the New Moon" by A. P. Miller, "The Way Pilots Walk" by Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith is a poet, spoken word, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.She was born in Chicago and currently lives in Westchester County, New York....
, "Breaker" by Randy F. Nelson

External links

  • , Christina Davis, Poets & Writers
    Poets & Writers

    Poets & Writers, Inc. is the largest nonprofit literary organization in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers....
     website