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!
Issue 14
2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations
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
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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Nominations for Best of the Net 2020
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!
Issue 12
Excited to share with you Issue 12 (exactly three years after the release of the first)!
Please click the cover image below to read work from:
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.
Nominations for Best New Poets 2020
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!
Issue 11
Issue 11 has arrived! It features stellar work from seven poets:
Ace Boggess
Sy Brand
Madeleine Grossman
Allison Hummel
Jude Nguyen
Simon Perchik
Stephanie Athena Valente
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Thanks for reading. Hope this uncertain era finds you safe and healthy.
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
The Mantle Poetry is pleased to announce our nominations for next year’s Pushcart Prize:
Stefani Cox – Fault Lines (Issue 7)
Kristin LaFollette – Exigence (Issue 7)
Tiffany Belieu – Size Matters (Issue 8)
Kristian Macaron – Your Blood Is What Builds You (Issue 9)
Alexandra Bentayou – Four of us: (Issue 10)
Hannah Newman – In the boxes that are left glass apples glaze with dust (Issue 10)
Good luck to these poems!
Issue 10
Issue 10 has arrived! We are excited to share poems from six poets:
Michael Akuchie
Alexandra Bentayou
P. Claire Dodson
Satya Dash
Hannah Newman
Ellen Sander
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Nominations for Best of the Net 2019
The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems from issues five through eight as our nominations for the 2019 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology:
sally burnette – “selected edible mushrooms of north carolina” (Issue 5)
Mateo Lara – “Odio (Hate)” (Issue 7)
Sara Trattner – “A Well Made Bed” (Issue 7)
Lisa Folkmire – “I am told that I have OCD” (Issue 8)
Joanna C. Valente – “When You Ask Me How I Am and I Almost Tell You, I Haven’t Killed Myself Yet” (Issue 8)
Rikki Angelides – “Departures” (Issue 8)
Congrats and good luck to these poets! Issue 10 will release in November. You can find submission guidelines here.
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