Origami Poems Project - Pushcart Prize Nominations 2021
Our 6 nominated poems - Click title to open/read
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Scalene I am tilted, • By Emma Foster from her microchap, 'Isoceles Triangle' |
Emma Foster is a fiction writer and poet from Florida. She has been published in the Cedarville Review, Ariel Chart, the Aurora Journal, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Nailpolish Stories and others.
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{slider Ten Years Missing Amy - Diane Elayne Dees}
Ten Years A decade has past, • By Diane Elayne Dees from her microchap 'Missing Amy' |
Her author blog is Diane Elayne Dees, Poet and Writer-at-Large.
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Against the Current'
The red tailed hawk flies a tugged line
over the pines that rig the riverside, along a taste of cracked toffee rocks. Oddly slow, the hawk, as if fighting a tide. to build 250 homes against the cliffs, *
By Matthew James Friday from his microchap 'The Residents'
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Matthew James Friday is a British born writer and teacher. He has been published in numerous international journals, including, recently: Dawntreader (UK), VerbalArt (India), and Lunch Ticket (USA). The micro-chapbooks All the Ways to Love, Waters of Oregon and The Words Unsaid were published by the Origami Poems Project (USA). Read more of his work at: http://matthewfriday.weebly.com/
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days of writing spent I don't know how long without thought every thought you have a thought is no • By Craig Kitner from his microchap 'across the day like honey' |
Craig Kittner has lived a lot of places. Fourteen at last count. Providence saw the start of interesting things that DC helped solidify. Now he lives near the sea in North Carolina and likes to ramble and write. Recent publications include Rabid Oak, CP Quarterly, Right Hand Pointing, and Bones.
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Into the Wild Unusual Dawn In this vicious • By Carolyn Adams from her microchap 'Into the Wild Unusual' |
Carolyn Adams' poetry and art have appeared in Steam Ticket, Cimarron Review, Topology, Apercus Quarterly, and Blueline Magazine, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, as well as for Best of the Net.
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The Fall they weren’t kidding
(Inspired by Julie Rotblatt-Amrany’s sculpture, • By Joris Soeding from his microchap 'After Highland Park' |
Joris Soeding's most recent collections of poetry are Forty (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) and Home in Nine Moons (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018). Soeding’s writing has appeared in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, and Red River Review. He is a fifth grade Language Arts teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, daughter, and kittens.
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All original work published by the Origami Poems Project is considered for the annual Pushcart Prize nominations.
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