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

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The Mantle Poetry is proud to have nominated these six poems for next year’s edition of the Pushcart Prize:

Ayesha Asad – “Look, Mama”

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!