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The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot"http://www.pushcartprize.com/nominate.htm published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.htm

The founding editors are Anais Nin, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish, Harry Smith, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles, Paul Engle, Ralph Ellison, Reynolds Price, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, and William Phillips. ^[1]

Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize Anthologies were: Kathy Acker, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Bruce Boston, Raymond Carver, Joshua Clover, Andre Dubus, Seán Mac Falls, William Monahan, Paul Muldoon, Tim O'Brien, Peter Orner, Kay Ryan, and Mona Simpson.

XXXII Edition Contents

"Cartagena" by Nam Le, "Those Who Clean After" by Charles Simic, "Hyacinthe and the Bear" by Paul Simmer, "War Lullaby" by Meghan O'Rourke, "Goats" by Rick Bass, "Man at the Moma" by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" by Lydia Peele, "Shelling the Pecans" by Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Children of Cain" by Jeff P. Jones, "Sloan-Kettering" by Lynn Shapiro, "Luck Chow Fun" by Lauren Groff, "Gulf Music" by Robert Pinsky, "Confession for Raymond Good Bird" by Melanie Rae Thon, "Waves" by Grace Schulman, "Juice" by Paul Allen, "Bon Voyage" by Tony Hoagland, "Nowhere" by Joyce Carol Oates, "Note to a Pine Ridge Girl Who Can No Long Read" by Adrian C. Louis, "The Dinner Party" by Galway Kinnell, "The Best Jeweler" by Clancy Martin, "Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf" by Rebecca Solnit, "We Started Home, My Son and I" by James Harms, "Departure" by Andrew J. Porter, "Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes" by Edward Hirsch, "18 1/2" by Robert Olen Butler, "Skinny-Dipping with Pat Nixon" by David Kirby, "August/No Rain" by Deborah Keenan, "The Dead Fish Museum" by Charles D'Ambrosio, "What For" by Gerald Stern, "A Genius for Grief: Memories of Saul Bellow" be Herbert Gold, "Diacritical Remarks" by G. C. Waldrep, "Himmelen" by Heidi Shayla, "On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman" by John Bradley, "Shepherdess" by Dan Chaon, "To the Sea at Cadiz" by Philip Levine, "Overwintering in Fairbanks" by Erica Keiko Iseri, "Models of Passion and Pain" by Eleanor Lerman, "Black Olives" by Michael Waters, "The Bridge" by Tiphanie Yanique, "The Method" by Marvin Bell, "Fine Distinctions" by Barbara Hurd, "Seven Marys" by Li-Young Lee, "Unassigned Territory" by Stephanie Powell Watts, "Flickers of Light Become the Movement of Thousands" by Greta Wrolstad, "Fathead's Hard Times" by W. S. Di Piero, "Bicameral" by Linda Gregerson, "Lotto" by Anna Solomon, "Rear View Mirror" by Joan Murray, "The Book of Wilson" by Andrew Rice, "The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity" by Mary Ruefle, "Mulatto" by Roxane Beth Johnson, "Pampkin's Lament" by Peter Orner, "Growing Wings" by Robert Bly, "Mercy" by Pinckney Benedict, "Stick Figure" by Gary Short, "The Subculture of the Wrongly Accused" by Thylias Moss, "The Dome" by Steven Millhauser, "Back to the Country with Pulitzer" by Liam Rector, "Bear Story" by Sage Marsters, "Power Point (I)" by Khaled Mattawa, "Blessing the New Moon" by A. P. Miller, "The Way Pilots Walk" by Patricia Smith, "Breaker" by Randy F. Nelson ^[2]