The American Poetry Journal Award Nominations
For Pushcart Prize XLI, 2017
Ösel Jessica Plante's “Wishbone”
M.J. Arlett's “Seedlings”
Elidio La Torre Lagares' "disaster #2: wooden fish ears”
Ruth Thompson's “Lightness, High Desert”
Jeffrey Morgan's “Translation”
Benjamin Gucciardi's “The Book of Indecision”
For Pushcart Prize XLII, 2018
Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman's "Ceremony"
John Sibley Williams' "Restoration"
Martha Silano's "It will have started as a small comb"
Stevie Edwards' "Some Form of Depression"
Nicole Rollender's "If I Could Have Been Born the Lord's Dog"
Sophie Segura's "Quemadero, or Farewell to a Husband’s Homeland"
Nominations announced July 2018
Nominations announced July 2017
For Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, 2017
Nominations announced April 2018
Tzynya L. Pinchback's "How to shave your head after the first chemotherapy cycle"
For the Rhysling Award in Speculative Poetry, 2017
Jeannine Hall Gailey's "One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness"
For The 2019 Orison Anthology
Angela Maria Spring's "Yesterday the President Said He Loved Us in Barbed Wire"
Rajani Radhakrishnan's "Pickled Mangoes"