Pushcart Prize 2025 Nominations

Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize nominees!

Read their nominated poems:

Charlotte Trumble – As If Wisconsin
Karen Luke Jackson – Noon Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral
Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)
Karina Lutz – Encircling Earth
Kimberly Phinney – Exalted Ground
Nathan Bakken – call it resurrection

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What is the Pushcart Prize?

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses. The Pushcart Prize has been a labor of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60’s and 70’s.