The Mantle Poetry is excited to release Issue 17, featuring fine work from seven poets:
Millicent Borges Accardi
David Capps
Peycho Kanev
Salvatore Difalco
Kuo Zhang
Bryan D. Price
Justin Groppuso-Cook
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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!
After a bit of a delay, The Mantle Poetry is happy to release its sixteenth issue, featuring the following contributors:
Michael Beard
Annie Cigic
Sara Eddy
Paris Jessie
Beth Konkoski
Nick Martino
Louise Robertson
George Ryan
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Issue 15 is now live! Proud to feature the work of these nine poets:
Cheryl Aguirre
billy cancel
Julia Lisella
Margo LaPierre
Lorette C. Luzajic
Suchoon Mo
James Owens
Louisa Schnaithmann
Manuela Williams
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Issue 14 is now live! Proud to feature the works of these eight poets:
Zamiya Akbar James H Duncan Beatriz Dujovne Elise Houcek Blue Nguyen Emily Scudder Debasis Tripathy Bear Weaver Click to access the issue. Thanks for reading!
The Mantle Poetry is proud to have nominated these six poems for next year’s edition of the Pushcart Prize:
Katherine Fallon – “Virus Chaser”
Allison Hummel – “Gain Powers and Learn Desperation”
Eunice Kim – “in response to the symptom of apathy”
Monica Kim – “what if I said yes: a queer multiverse”
Lauren Mallett – “Paisley with Acanthus and Flower Lashings”
As always, it is extremely difficult to narrow the choices down each year, but these poems and the issues they live in are well worth revisiting!
Issue 13 has released, featuring these poets!
Sloan Asakura
Darren C. Demaree
Joan Kwon Glass
Leijia Hanrahan
Monica Kim
Kayla Krut
Sarah Law
Lauren Mallett
Catherine Weiss
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The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems from issues nine through eleven as our nominations for the 2020 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology:
Kristian Macaron: Mothra: The Song Remains (Issue 9)
Ashley Steineger: Small Town Living (Issue 9)
Michael Akuchie: Violence (Issue 10)
Satya Dash: A fire that sings when doused (Issue 10)
Blue Nguyen: acromantis grandis (Issue 11)
Madeleine Grossman: potty training (Issue 11)
Congrats!
Excited to share with you Issue 12 (exactly three years after the release of the first)!
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Ayesha Asad
Mohamed Elhassan
Katherine Fallon
Eunice Kim
emilie kneifel
Courtney LeBlanc
Victoria Nordlund
Julia Rosenbaum
Esther Sun
In other news, Best of the Net nominations will be announced in the coming weeks.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for providing light in these uncertain times.
After a lot of deliberation, The Mantle Poetry is proud to announce our nominees for Best New Poets 2020:
Maddie Ticknor – “American Loneliness”
Jude Nguyen – “ode to section 8 housing”
These poems are well worth revisiting. Congrats!
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