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JDP 2020 Pushcart Nominations

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“I don’t have any money, but I can pay you with a song.”

There’s not much of this cursed year left, but there’s still time to share the pieces we nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize!

“Amid the Frolicking Penguins” by Robert Garnham

“The Youngest Cannibal Returns to Texas After Her First Semester of College” by Anne Gresham

“Ferryman” by Laura Parker

“Bayonne Bridge” by A E Weisgerber

Congratulations to all of our fabulous nominees, and please rest assured that we did actually mail these out on time, and it’s only our communication of this to the world that is running a little behind.

For more good readin’, keep an eye out for next issue, which will appear in January; meanwhile, our most recent issue is always available to delight you.

Issue 110 Flutters in on Little Bat Wings

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Cover art by Samuel Snoek-Brown

We know. But—this is important—despite everything, you’re still here. We are, too. With words to revive your exhausted and snacky spirits. From A. E. Weisgerber, there’s “Bayonne Bridge,” a gorgeous sestina that must be read aloud to be fully appreciated. (Trust us; your cat will love it.) Next, Miles Greaves ponders “The Identity of Indiscernibles” in a voice that feels contemporary yet Poesque, and we suspect Edgar Allan would grudgingly concede the grotesque imagery is streets ahead. Sergey Gerasimov spins a surprising and well-paced fairy tale “About People of Glass and Stone,” while Hamdy Elgammal slowly tips the floor beneath your feet in the surreal creeper “Broadside.” Completing the issue is a refreshing palate-cleanser of a haiku from Nick Corvino. Plus, scary-fun cover art “Rise and with the Valkyries Fly” by our amazing production editor, Samuel Snoek-Brown.

We never really trusted the old normal, and we sure as hell aren’t gonna let them drop this new one in our pumpkin holes without a fight. Normal is for suckers. Keep being beautifully, earnestly, incandescently weird.

Anyway, Issue 110! Slap it online or tickle the PDF.

The July Issue

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Our one-hundred-and-ninth issue is something of an anomaly, as it contains much loss and destruction—of the environment, of others, of the self. Yet as the nettle’s sting is soothed by the jewelweed that grows alongside it, each piece holds some key ingredient that makes its burdens easier to bear: beauty, laughter, resilience.

There are so many things to worry about right now, and trying to keep up with what we need to do, to think, and to feel threatens to overwhelm us at every moment. We hope the words of James Donlon, Robert Garnham, K. Noel Moore, Nick Olson, Namit V. Shah, and Ali A. Ünal, as well as the art of Angelica Gonzalez, will provide an antidote to despair.

Eyeball it online or get your claws on the .pdf.