It’s Pushcart Prize nomination season! The editors of Gunpowder Press selected the following 6 poems to nominate from the hundreds of poems published this year in Gunpowder Press books:

Michelle Bonczek Evory “Yaquina Bay, and Darkness” from Peculiar Fire: 10 Years of Gunpowder Press, edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost (this poem also appears in Michelle’s full-length volume, The Ghosts of Lost Animals.

Andrea Carter “What Will Make Me Well” from Figeater

Keith Ekiss “End Days” from Burial Fragments

Holly Karapetkova “History” from Dear Empire

“Imagine” by Mary Ann McFadden, from Women in a Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond, edited by Diana Raab and Chryss Yost

Michelle Moncayo “Origin” from Here, on This 76L (Alta California Chapbook Series—published in a bilingual edition—Emma Trelles, series editor)
Thank you, poets!

