nominations – Prolific Pulse Blog

It’s time to announce the nominees for the Pushcart Prize to be considered for publication by The Pushcart Press.

All of the nominees were published in Social Possibilites

This years nominees and their poem titles are:

Rita Anderson for “Waiting Room”

Roberta Batorsky for “Pashtun Sanwich”

Loralee Clark for “When Capitalism Says”

Michael Ingram for “My Mother and My Father”

Ivan Salazar for “A Future of Possibilities”

Munmun Samanta for “Life After Ruins”

Congratulations to these well-deserved nominees and thank you to Zaneta V. Johns for helping with the decision making process.

In case you missed it- Here’s the video of the Book Launch for Social Possibiliities

As the manager of Prolific Pulse Press LLC I am honored to select the following for the Pushcart Prize nominations this year.

Zaneta Varnado Johns – Poem: What Matters, Published in After the Rainbow: Golden Poems 2022

JeanMarie Olivieri – Poem: Care Give and Take, Published in Caring for Souls 2022

Steve Anc – Poem: I am fine: don’t read this poem, Published in I am fine: don’t read this poem 2022

Lyris D. Wallace – Poem: No Justice for Breonna, Published in Social Justice Inks 2022

Jia-Li Yang – Poem: The First is the Last, Published in Social Justice Inks 2022

Kika Man – Poem: Rejecting your own body: an unrequited love poem, Published in Let the Mourning Come 2022

About the Pushcart Prize: In their words: “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.”

Our best wishes for the nominees. I look forward to seeing more of their prolific works in the future.

All books mentioned are on Prolific Pulse.com