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The American Poetry Journal Award Nominations

For Pushcart Prize XLI, 2017

Nominations announced December 2017

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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

Nominations announced December 2018

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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"

For Sundress Publications Best of the Net, 2017

Nominations announced July 2018

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Jill Alexandra Essbaum's "Outside"
Steve Mueske's "Quatervois"
Chelsea Dingman's "Ceremony"
Angela Maria Spring's "Yesterday the President Said He Loves Us In Barbed Wire"
Faylita Hicks' "Blackened Tilapia & Citrus"
Kevin Coyne's "On Mission in Haiti"

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For Sundress Publications Best of the Net, 2016

Nominations announced July 2017

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Ösel Jessica Plante's "Wishbone"
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck's "Prayer for Wasps"
Jeffrey Morgan's "The Epileptic's Guide to Time Travel"
Carolee D. Bennett's "Ornithophobia, Diffused"
Amy Bracken Sparks' "For When You Need a Colder Power"
Pamela Johnson Parker's "CODA: out of"

For Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, 2017 

Nominations announced April 2018

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Tzynya L. Pinchback's "How to shave your head after the first chemotherapy cycle"

Lara Egger's "Sweet Boy"
Jeffrey Morgan's "Translation"

For the Rhysling Award in Speculative Poetry, 2017

Jeannine Hall Gailey's "One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness" 

For The 2019 Orison Anthology

Nominations announced September 2018

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Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman's "Ceremony"

John Sibley Williams' "Restoration"

Martha Silano's "It will have started as a small comb" Lane Falcon's "Prodigal"

Angela Maria Spring's "Yesterday the President Said He Loved Us in Barbed Wire"

Rajani Radhakrishnan's "Pickled Mangoes"

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The American Poetry Journal (APJ) is back and online only for now! Theresa Senato Edwards has taken over the reins as of April 21, 2025. Unfortunately, Theresa did not get much info on past submissions, except that all submissions were responded to. She queried about the anthology, chapbook, full-length submissions, and any upcoming online issues; but the same response was given to her: that all submissions were responded to. Theresa was not able to obtain access to the old APJ Submittable account either. She requested access but was told that the APJ Submittable account was unavailable. Theresa was not a part of the mess that transpired from 2022 to 2024, approximately. And she is sorry that she doesn't have additional news about much of the past submissions as well as submission fees. She asked for financial statements but was not given any. For now the website has been updated with issue and review archives, and we will go from there. Theresa apologizes that she doesn't have more to share and hopes that all her literary citizenship and fine literary reputation over the years will help APJ move positively forward, despite all the disappointment. Theresa will try her best to regain APJ's transparency, passion, and commitment to poets and poetry.​

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