Nomination For Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of our annual collections.. . .
By Relief Journal for my poem kenosis. Doesn’t mean that I will win, but it’s nice to be noticed.
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woo hoo!! when will you know?
No clue. When I see other peoples’ names published.
so…you wanna post that poem so we can all read it and properly oogle over your poetic genius?
kenosis
. . . Because God
is not a flash of diamond light. God is
the kicked child, the child
who rocks alone in the basement
~ Ellen Bass “Bearing Witness”
after reading Roethke’s Waltz
the tension in my class was tangible:
to cast papa as a drunk (dealing abuse
with timed fists), or just a regular joe
dancing his darling to bed,
lightened by an after work beer
but as these immortals debated design
and argued image to metaphor
Katrine’s stillness split my heart;
later she explained her stepfather’s demand
of a demon’s dowry: how she nightly endured
his endless gropes and gasps, in a silence
which left her sister untouched, and a knife
untucked from his thrusting back.
~MEH
Editor’s Choice Award, Relief Journal, Winter 2007