PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS: 

2017

Lisa Ampleman “Luminous Mystery V: This is My Body”
Mark S. Burrows “First Listening”
Maryann Corbett “Me and Wittgenstein”
Terri Kirts “The Suicides of Southern Illinois”
Susan L. Miller “‘Do you believe in the resurrection of the body?’”
Lois Roma-Deeley “[Held Hostage by My Own Good Opinion of Myself]”

2018

Kelli Russell Agodon “Pyro of the Faithful”
John Drexel “Found Among the Lost”
Tyler Farrell “Mystical Daydreaming at the Autumn Faculty Meeting”
Cynthia Hogue “Psalm”
Nicole Rollender “How I Learned to Forgive a Good Man”
Judith Valente “A Place Called Trouble”

2019

Alan Berecka “Note to my Future Self,”
Mary Buchinger “A Broken Sonnet for the Sparrow Trapped
in the Interfaith Center on the 3rd Floor
of the McCormick Building at UMass Boston Overlooking the Harbor”
Robin Amelia Morris “If you cannot pray as yourself”
Daye Phillippo “Thunderhead”
Richard Spilman “Finding God”
R. Bratten Weiss “Sunday Worship”

2020

Sean Thomas Dougherty “Imaginary Death Certificate (perdónanos a todas)”
Joshua Gage translation of “The Hand of Fortune” by Lucía Estrada
Brent House “07292019”
Madeleine Mysko “Pietà”
Jacob Riyeff translation of “The Ruin” (anonymous Old English)
Emily Stoddard “On Tilt”

2021

Dante Di Stefano “Poem Beginning as an Elegy for Eavan Boland
and Ending as a Meditation on the Afterlife”
John Hodgen “What It Is”
Sheree La Puma “The Girl’s Name is Elizabeth”
Dan MacIsaac “Flight”
Theresa Monteiro “Prayer for a Life Longer Than a Sonnet”
Daniel Tobin “(Fault)”

2022

Maryann Corbett “A Late Regret”
Tina Kelley “How to Believe in God”
Justin Lacour “Little Flower”
Paul Martin “The Nun”
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell “Conjure”
Alfonso “Sito” Sasieta “Salsa Dura”