Nominations & Awards
Nominees for the 2009 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):
- Jason Bredle, for his poem "The Forest of Sadness" (The Humor Issue)
- Patricia Fargnoli, for her poem, "Love Song to My Imperfect Body" (The Gender Issue)
- Roy Jacobstein, for his poem "The Unknown Albeit, or While Reading a Friend’s Prize-Winning Book on Love’s Vicissitudes He Writes about Words" (The Humor Issue)
- William Palmer, for his poem "Stingrays" (The Gender Issue)
- Jennifer Sweeney, for her poem "Devotion" (The Gender Issue)
- Charles Harper Webb, for his poem "Taking is Personally" (The Humor Issue)
Nominees for the 2010 Best of the Web Anthology (Dzanc Books):
- Jo Scott-Coe, for "Not So Gay at the YMCA" (The Gender Issue)
- Diane Seuss, for "Baby goodbye" (The Gender Issue)
- Lafayette Wattles, for "Soup Kitchen" (The Gender Issue)
Nominees for the 2009 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):
- Deborah Bogen, for "Driving Home Trying Not to Change the Station (The Humor Issue)
- Sherman Alexie, for "Inappropriate" (The Humor Issue)
- Ann Fisher-Wirth, for "My Nancy Drews" (The Humor Issue)
- Barbara Crooker, for "TXT MSSGE HMLT" (The Humor Issue)
- Jason Bredle, for "American Sex Machine" (The Humor Issue)
- David Graham, for "The Look of a Bay Mare" (The Humor Issue)
Nominees for the 2009 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):
- Chella Courington, for "Medley" (The Humor Issue)
- Jon Stone, for "Bullshit Related Injuries in the A & E" (The Humor Issue)
Nominees for the 2008 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):
- Kristen Orser, for "Minnows" (The Prose Poem Issue)
- Benjamin Vogt, for "Portraiture at Blanks' Photography -- Weatherford, 1978" (The Form Issue)
Nominees for the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):
- Roy Jacobstein, for his carmina figuratum "Decimation" (Poems in Form)
- Kathryn Varnes, for her nonce tetrameter/pentameter quintet, "For My Tulips Covered in Darkness" (Poems in Form)
- Tony Barnstone, for his sonnet "Concerning the Great Rift Valley" (Poems in Form)
- Janet Kirchheimer, for her poem "The Geometry of Poetry" (Prose Poem Issue)
- Bobbi Lurie, for her poem "Traveling North" (Prose Poem Issue)
- Steve Myers, for his poem "My Father's People" (Prose Poem Issue)
Nominees for the 2007 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):
- Tony Barnstone, for his sonnet, "Concerning a Bag of Potato Chips" (Poems in Form)
- Judith Barrington, for her palindrome, "The Surface, The Light" (Poems in Form)
- Richard Garcia, for his sevenlings, "Five Sevens" (Poems in Form)
- Eloise Klein Healy, for her ekphrastic poem on Sappho, "What I Would Want to Know" (The Ekphrastic Issue)
- Tom C. Hunley, for his poem on Egon Schiele's "Self Portrait With Tooth" (The Ekphrastic Issue)
- Shin Yu Pai, for her work "Ibid x 8", after a David Lukowski painting of the same name (The Ekphrastic Issue)
Nominees for the 2007 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):
- Susan Settlemyre Williams, for "Woman Dressed in her Long Hair" (The Ekphrastic Issue)
- Alex Grant, for "The Steps of Montmartre" (The Ekphrastic Issue)
Result: "The Steps of Montmartre" was chosen for inclusion.


