Pushcart Prize Nominations

Founded in 1976, The Pushcart Prize honors the best literary work (short stories, poetry, and essays) published by small presses each year. I am thrilled that Muzzle is able to nominate six pieces for consideration this year. After much deliberation (soliciting votes from editors, dramatically reading the poems to unsuspecting guests at parties and gauging their reactions, etc), Muzzle's nominations for The Pushcart Prize are:

• The Spider Farm by Christian Drake
  
• Wait by Jeanann Verlee and Carlos Andres Gomez
  
• Stealing the Pumpkins by Chandra E.A. Dickson
• How to Tell My Dad that I Kissed a Man by F. Douglas Brown
• "Frida Kahlo to Diego," or "the ways my body feels empty sometimes" by Jamila Woods
• Blackberry Harvest by Keith S. Wilson

Please join me in wishing these fabulous poets luck. We are blessed beyond reason to have so many talented and soulful writers in our first two issues. 


-Stevie Edwards