Origami Poems Project - Pushcart Prize Nominations 2023
Our 6 Nominated Poems
Icarus – Karen Pierce Gonzalez
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Icarus I am tilted, ● |
Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s works include True North (Origami Poems Project 2022), Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books 2023), and Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press 2024). Her writing and assemblage art have appeared in numerous publications. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Non-Fungible Token - Alexey Deyneko
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Non-Fungible Token If your token is non-fungible, Non-yeastable, At the same time. If you want to add Oomycetes are very fungi-like too. • Alexey Deyneko © 2023 in 'Non-Fungible Token' |
Alexey is a pacifist who lives and contemplates the interconnections between different art forms in Sydney, the city that inspires him in a variety of delightful ways. He holds a media degree from the University of New South Wales. Alexey’s micro-chapbook, Non-Fungible Token, is published by the Origami Poems Project. His work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press, The Raven Review, New Note Poetry, dadakuku, and Quibble.
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Grief
You say
you cannot get another dog, the inevitable heartbreak too much to bear, but the dog you do not get now will die in time, as will the one you do not get after that, your grief safely tucked away, your heart unbroken until it stops. *
Marsh Muirhead © 2023 in 'Noteworthy'
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Marsh Muirhead lives on the banks of the Mississippi River, near the source, in northern Minnesota. His work has appeared in Poetry East, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. He has published two collections of haiku – Her Cold Martini, and Last Night of the Carnival – and his haiku have been found engraved in the sidewalk on the Palm Avenue bridge in Key West, on a rock along the Haiku Walk in Millersburg, Ohio, and have been read by Billy Collins on his poetry broadcast several times. Marsh once won the annual Great American Think-Off essay and debate contest addressing the question: “Does Poetry Matter.” He said it did and does.
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Learning to Read – Laura Sloan Patterson
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Learning to Read This is how you teach your child • Laura Sloan Patterson © 2023 in 'Escape' |
Laura Sloan Patterson is an English professor at Seton Hill University in western Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in Lines + Stars, Spry, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Mom Egg, Rust + Moth, HOOT, The North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals. She was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize awarded by the North Carolina Literary Review.
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The Sundown the chain-link, the stay up All Eating breakout out The soccer when I couldn’t play questions Finally, it was a dissolving, enough ways I couldn’t be, tired of trying to step • JD DeHart © 2023 in 'The Sundown' |
JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. He has been publishing poetry actively since 2012 and has taught students from the age of 4 to 40. Currently a high school English teacher, he is currently working on his PhD in Literacy Studies. His latest collection of poetry, A Five-Year Journey, has recently been released by Dreaming Big Publications. DeHart blogs about books and authors at literacyworkandplay.blogspot.com •
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Kitsungi– Ariana D. den Bleyker
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Kitsungi this bowl can still be repaired irredeemably, have been trodden underfoot, in an effort to recover the edges jigsawed together to simply embrace the cracks filling them with something • Ariana D. Den Bleyker © 2023 in 'STILL I RISE' |
Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in New York’s Hudson Valley where she is a wife and mother of two. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her family and every once in a while sleeps. She is the author of three collections and twenty chapbooks, among others. She is the founder and publisher of ELJ Editions, Ltd., a 501(c)(3) literary nonprofit. She hopes you'll fall in love with her words.
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All original work published by the Origami Poems Project is considered for the annual Pushcart Prize nominations.
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