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2019 Pushcart prize XLIII, best of the small presses, edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors

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2019 Pushcart prize XLIII

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edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors

best of the small presses

This 43rd edition of the annual Pushcart Prize - the most celebrated literary series in America - is further proof that these days the heat and heart of contemporary writing is often found in small presses scattered around the country and the world, far from the pressures of commercial centers. As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIII indicates, it is a diverse community constantly infused by new stories, essays and poetry from small press authors with a vision of what is honest and vital. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson -- What has irony done for us lately / Pam Houston -- The tornado auction / Karen Russell -- Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland -- The tell-tale heart / Anthony Marra -- The armed letter writers / Olufunke Ogundimu -- Carolyn / Steve Stern -- Dancing / Robert Hass / Singular Dream / Mary Ruefle -- What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? / J.M. Holmes -- Lupinski / Myron Taube -- Yilan / Kristin Chang -- Murder tourism in middle America / Justin St. Germain -- The great meal / Jung Hae Chae -- The storm / Michael Collier -- Kylie wears Balmain / Sarah Resnick -- Secrets deep in tiger forests / Poe Ballantine -- Barbie Chang wants to be someone / Victoria Chang -- A fish in the tree / John Landretti -- All politics / Jessica Burstein -- My hobby needed a hobby / Dana Roeser -- Spectral evidence / Victor Lavalle -- I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Vaye Watkins -- Like someone asleep in a cinema / Mary Jo Bang -- Midwinter / D. Nurkse -- The bar beach show / Olabajo Dada -- Parachute / Maggie Smith -- A country scene / Rick Moody -- Face / Tom Sleigh -- The Imagination Resettlement Program / Eli Barrett -- Christian soldiers / Hal Crowther -- Bbhmm / Tiana Clark -- No time like the present / Gabriel Brownstein -- Skull / David Long -- Kernals / David J. Rothman -- A flock, a siege, a murmuration / Su-Yee Lin -- Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! / Andrew Mitchell -- The clearing / Allison Adair -- Guerrilla marketing / Sanjay Agnihotri -- The wonder of the look on her face / Brian Doyle -- UDFJ-39546284 / Rick Barot -- Taco night / Julie Hecht -- I figure / Kim Chinquee -- Faith for my father circa 1980 / Erik Campbell -- The whitest girl / Brenda Peynado -- The hunter / Gabriel Daniel Solis -- One definition of time / Albert Goldbarth -- The wall / Robert Coover -- Iraq good / Hugh Martin -- Acceptance speech / David Naimon -- I kept getting books about birds / Catherine Pierce -- Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde -- Wonder days / Nomi Stone -- The white road / Daniel Tobin -- A suburban weekend / Lisa Taddeo -- Autism screening questionnaire: speech and language delay / Oliver De La Paz -- Do I look sick to you? / C.J. Hribal -- Field theories / Samiya Bashir -- How do you raise a black child? / Cortney Lamar Charleston -- Pathetic Fallacy / Emilia Phillips -- Quarry / Melissa Stein -- Pedal, pedal, pedal / Heather Sellers -- Kra-Din / Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah -- Blue coming / Thylias Moss -- Codeswitch decomposing into Lil Wayne Lyric / Julian Randall -- Transition: the renaming of hope / Molly Cooney -- Just the one episode / John Ashbery -- Monomoy / Carl Phillips -- He / Jane Mead -- From "Interruptive" / Phillip Williams -- Brace yourself / Leslie Jill Patterson -- Powder house / Molly Gallentine

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