Issue 21

Issue 21 has landed! Honored to feature work from the following writers:

John Paul Davis
Melissa Eleftherion
R. Gerry Fabian
Haro Lee
Erin L. McCoy
Nadia Rhook
Laura Rockhold
Jacob Schepers
CJ Scruton

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Pushcart Prize Nominations 2022

The Mantle Poetry is happy to announce this year’s Pushcart Prize nominations:

Rebecca Macijeski – “Because I Listen For Things” (Issue 18)
Elana Wolff – “Ice Lace” (Issue 18)
Anna Gayle – “All I Want Is to Be Soft Again” (Issue 19)
William Snyder, Jr. “About Owls, the Bones of Mice, and the Work of Assembly” (Issue 19)
Elizabeth Sylvia – “The Transience” (Issue 19)
Philip Jason – “Lucinate” (Issue 19)

Congrats to all!

Best of the Net Nominations 2021



The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems as our nominations for the 2020 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology. (Issues 12 – 15 were eligible for nominations this year):

Zamiya Akbar – All the Ways Love Can Leave
Elise Houcek – The Lime Tree
Eunice Kim – the body’s grief is apocryphal
Margo LaPierre – Ride
Blue Nguyen – a portrait: i learn how to forgive a bird
Bear Weaver – Into Ornithology

Congrats!