2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations

"Our mothers were jeweled / in nose pins and brass hoops"

“And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it!”

"And each time I’m reminded of my age / and that this is how it will be."

"My folks sent me away to live with my Aunt Charlene and Uncle Bud in eastern Colorado the summer of 1969, praying I’d come back a reformed boy."

"You eat steak, you want sex; you want sex, you want sex.”

“I've heard ghosts down inside the stereo”