Pushcart Prize Nominations

The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction and essays published (in print or online) by small-press magazines and book publishers. 

The poetry nominations for 2021 from Cold Moon Journal were mailed to Pushcart Press in New York today. Congratulations to these talented poets:

Yasir Farooq

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-yasir-farooq.html

Vladislav Hristov

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/02/by-vladislav-hristov.html

JL Huffman

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/04/by-jl-huffman.html

Barrie Levine

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-barrie-levine_22.html

Miriam Sagan

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/by-miriam-sagan.html

Stephen Toft

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/09/by-stephen-toft.html

Nominations for the 2025 Pushcart Prize (Poetry)

 

 

Mar 26:

periodic table

the stars that flow

through us

Eugeniusz Zacharski

Apr 5:

closed clinic

another choice

terminated

Scott Wiggerman

Apr 9:

gentle dawn ...

the haiku remains

unfinished

Samo Kreutz

Apr 22:

losing the path

deep in the forest

I find myself

deep in the forest

losing myself

I find the path

losing the path

I find myself

deep in the forest

Belinda Behne

Oct 6:

long weekend

the news comes

on a friday

Jerome Berglund

Oct 12:

fake profile —

why would anyone

want to be me

Susan Burch

 

Big congratulations to our six Pushcart nominees!

Nominations for the Touchstone Awards are underway, so please remain patient. Uploading the data for 30 poems is taking considerable time and effort. It's a lengthy process, but the Touchstone announcement will be posted at the journal once everything is finished.

Pushcart Prize Nominations

 

Pushcart Prize Poetry Nominations

from Cold Moon Journal (poems published during 2023)

untitled (first line: a scattered mind) by Nicola Schaum

untitled (first line: autumn) by Sébastien Revon

untitled (first line: red glitter shoes) by Randy Brooks

untitled (first line: bread crumbs) by Mike Fainzilber

untitled (first line: where the leaf) by Brad Bennett

untitled (first line: old button) by Kimberly Kuchar

Congratulations to all (from the Pushcat)!

Cold Moon Journal's 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations (for Poetry)

Congratulations to these six talented poets:

Orrin PréJean

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/07/by-orrin-prejean_15.html

H.A. Sappho

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/by-h-sappho.html

Jay Friedenberg

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/by-jay-friedenberg.html

Bisshie

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/09/by-bisshie.html

Mike Gallagher

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/09/by-mike-gallagher.html

Keith Evetts

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/07/by-keith-evetts_3.html

 

Final selection notices will be in the (postal) mail to editors in April of 2023. All winning poets receive a free copy of the annual print anthology.

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

swaying in dawn's blush an ancient dialect

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020).