Craft Class Archive

Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 – Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton, eds. (Back Bay Books)

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (Bantam)

Major Jackson, The Absurd Man (Norton)

Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 – Bill Henderson, ed. (Pushcart Press)

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Harvest Books)

Claire Messud, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays (Norton)

Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press)

Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love (Vintage)

Tommy Pico, Nature Poem (Tin House)

Kimi Eisele, The Lightest Object in the Universe: A Novel (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV, Bill Henderson, ed. (Pushcart Press)

Stories:”General: Unskilled” by Ryan Eric Dull and “Scandalous Women in History” by Malerie Willens // Poems: “Versal” by Francine J. Harris, “American Landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon” by Roger Reeves, “Five and a Possible” by Alison C. Rollins, and “Citizenship” by Javier Zamora

Katheen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories (Ecco)

Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945, Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton, eds.

“Father” and “Mulatto Lullaby” by Ralph Dickey, “For the Record” by Audre Lorde, “to ms. ann” by Lucille Clifton, “Elegy for Thelonius” by Yusef Komunyakaa, “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden

Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Jill Bialosky, Asylum (Knopf)

Ling Ma, Severance (Picador/FSG)

Christopher Shade, Shield the Joyous (Paloma Press)

Natalia Ginzburg, Family Lexicon (New York Review of Books Classics)

Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (FSG Classics)

Michael Bazzett (translation), The Popul Vuh (Milkweed Editions)

Azar Nifisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Random House)

Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “The Arms of Saturday Night” by Cally Fiedorek and “Braindrain” by C Pam Zhang // Poems: “Monticello House Tour” by Kiki Petrosino, “The Ugly American” by Shara Lessley, “Walking in Fast-Falling Dusk What is Between Us Besides” by Mary Szybist, and “Young Hare” by Diane Seuss

Wesley McNair, Dwellers in the House of the Lord (Godine)

Lesley Nneka Arimah, What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories (Riverhead Books)

Eleanor Kedney, Between the Earth and Sky (C&R Press)

Aurelie Sheehan, Once Into the Night (University of Alabama Press)

Edward Hirsch, Stranger by Night: Poems (Knopf)

My Friends Don’t Get Buried
The Black Dress
The Radiance
In the Valley
That’s the Job
To My Seventeen-Year-Old Self
The Guild
Stranger by Night
I Walked Out of the Cemetery
Don’t Write Elegies

Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live (HarperCollins)

“Nashville Gone to Ashes” and “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried.”

Renata Adler, Speedboat (NYRB Classics)

Anya Yurchyshyn, My Dead Parents: A Memoir (Crown)

Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “Festival” by Mary Miller and “The History of Sound” by Ben Shattuck // Poems: “That’s the Job” by Edward Hirsch, “Say This” by Lucia Perillo, “Reza’s Restaurant, Chicago 1997” by Kaveh Akbar, and “In the Studio at End of Day” by Catherine Barnett

Edgar Kunz, Tap Out: Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers: A Novel (Penguin)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses 2019 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “The Tornado Auction” by Karen Russell and “Lupinski” by Myron Taube // Poems: “Barbie Chang Wants to Be Someone” by Victoria Chang, “Like Someone Asleep in a Cinema” by Mary Jo Bang, “Face” by Tom Sleigh, and “Wonder Days” by Nomi Stone

Andrew Sean Greer, Less: A Novel (Back Bay Books)

Diane Williams, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams (Soho Press)

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated by Lorin Stein (New Directions)

Amy Tan, Where the Past Begins, Memory and Imagination: A Writer’s Memoir (HarperCollins)

Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons: Poems (FSG)

Robert Pinsky, The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling (Norton)

From The Sleep of Reason
Anonymous, “The Man of Double Deed” (p.3)
Patricia Lockwood, “Is Your Country a He or a She in Your Mouth?” (p. 28)

From Grief
Fulke Greville, “Elegy for Philip Sidney” (p. 35)
Louise Glück, “Visitors from Abroad” (p.64)

From Love and Rage
Sappho, tr. Powell, “Artfully Adorned Aphrodite” (p. 83)
Emily Dickinson, “”I Cannot Live With You” (#640) (p.92)
Wendy Trevino, “Poem” (p.117)

from Despair
Ben Jonson, “An Ode to Himself” (p. 128)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “No Worst, There is None” (p.133)
Maggie Dietz, “Zoloft” (p.146)

From Guilt, Shame, Blame
Anonymous, “The Cruel Mother” (p.151)
W.S. Merwin, “Yesterday” (p.160)
Rita Dove, “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove” (p.171)

From Manic Laughter
Frank O’Hara, “Naptha” (p. 192)

Mark Strand, New Selected Poems (Knopf)

Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses 2019 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “Taco Night” by Julie Hecht and “The Hunter” by Gabriel Daniel Solis. //
Poems: “Monomoy” by Carl Phillips, “Yilan” by Kristin Chang, “The Clearing” by Allison Adair, and “Codeswitch Decomposing into Lil Wayne Lyric” by Julian Randall.

Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends: A Novel (Hogarth)

Kimiko Hahn, Brain Fever: Poems (Norton)

Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir (Random House)

Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems (Norton)

Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories (New Directions)

Sally Wen Mao, Oculus (Graywolf Press)

Tina Chang, Hybrida: Poems (Norton)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses 2019 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “The Imagination Resettlement Program” by Eli Barrett and “Let the Devil Sing” by Allegra Hyde //
Poems: “Parachute” by Maggie Smith, “Singular Dream” by Mary Ruefle, “Dancing” by Robert Haas, and “Just the One Episode” by John Ashbery

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Small Fry (Grove Press)

Christopher Shade, The Good Mother of Marseille (Paloma Press)

James Lasdun, Afternoon of a Faun: A Novel (Norton)

Yukiko Motoya (translated by Asa Yoneda), The Lonesome Bodybuilder (Soft Skull Press)

David Daniel, Ornaments (Pitt Poetry Series)

Tony Hoagland, Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed (Back Bay Books)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses 2019 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories: “Kylie Wears Balmain” by Sarah Resnick and “All Politics” by Jessica Burstein. //
Poems: “Iraq Good” by Hugh Martin, “How Do You Raise a Black Child?” by Cortney Lamar Charleston, “Pathetic Fallacy” by Emilia Phillips, and “Quarry” by Melissa Stein

Michele Herman, Victory Boulevard (Finishing Line Press)

Sigrid Nunez, The Friend: A Novel (Riverhead Books)

James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem (FSG)

Jonathan Santlofer, The Widower’s Notebook: A Memoir (Penguin)

John Keene, Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (New Directions)

“Rivers” and “Acrobatique”

Alice Hatcher, The Wonder That Was Ours (Dzanc Books)

Erika Meitner, Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions)

Alice Quinn, A Conversation

Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy (Harper Perennial)

Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (And Other Stories Publishing)

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses 2019 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems – “Faith for My Father Circa 1980” by Erik Campbell, “Autism Screening Questionnaire” by Oliver de la Paz, “Into the Mystery” by Tony Hoagland, “I Kept Getting Books About Birds” by Catherine Pierce,“My Hobby Needed a Hobby” by Dana Roeser, and “Kernals” by David J. Rothman

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Atria)

“Fatima, the Biloquist: A Transformation Story” and “Suicide, Watch”

Grace Schulman, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point Press)

A. Van Jordan, Macnolia: Poems (Norton)

Franz Kafka, Letter to the Father, bilingual edition, translated by Ernst Kaiser & Eithne Wilkins (Schocken Books)

Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart (Lenny)

Lisa Bellamy, The Northway (Terrapin Books)

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (University of Chicago Press)

Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Story: “The Story of a True Artist” by Dominica Phetteplace //
Poems: “The Antique Blacks” by Adrian Matejka and “The Beating Heart of the Wristwatch” by Martin Espada

Emma Glass, Peach (Bloomsbury)

Laurie Colwin, Family Happiness (Harper Perennial)

Philip Schultz, Luxury (Norton)

IGA,
At the Manhattan Social Security Office,
Greed,
How I Became a Teacher,
The Kiss,
The Women’s March,
Googling Ourselves,
Welcome to the Springs, and
Luxury (the title poem)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees (Grove Press)

“Black Eyes Woman” and “The Americans.”

Jill Bialosky, Poetry Will Save Your Life (Atria Books)

Preface, Discovery, Danger, Passion, Suicide, and Mystery

Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Elk” by Robert Wrigley,
“Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles” by Sally Wen Mao,
“The Spring Forecast” by Shelley Wong,
“Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man’s Face” by Shane McCrae,
“The Revolt of the Turtles” by Stephen Dunn, and
“Basement Delivery” by Emily Skillings

Matthew Klam, Who is Rich? (Random House)

Pattiann Rogers, Holy Heathen Rhapsody (Penguin)

Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Things I Know to be True” by Kendra Fortmeyer and
“The Devil’s Triangle” by Emma Duffy-Comparone

Danielle Lazarin, Back Talk (Penguin)

Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf)

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Telref” by Edward McPherson and “Wanderlust” by Laleh Khadivi

Matthew Zapruder, Why Poetry (Ecco)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin)

Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf)

“Look”
“Safe House”
“Special Events for Homeland Security”
“Inspiration Point, Berkeley”
“Reaching Guantanamo”
“Personal Effects” (especially pp. 64-65)

Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf)

“The Husband Stitch” and “Inventory.”

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions)

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“A Single Deliberate Thing” by Zebbie Watson,
“Death Defiant Bomba or What to Wear When Your Boo Gets Cancer” by Lilliam Rivera

James Wright, Selected Poems (FSG)

The Robert Bly introduction
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor, p. 1
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, p. 34
Two Hangovers, p.44
Beginning, p. 47
A Blessing, p. 54
The Minneapolis Poem, p.59
In Memory of Leopardi, p.74
To the Muse, p.80
The Silent Angel, p.114
Hook, p.118

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems:
“Immigration” by Kevin Prufer,
“A Cottony Fate” by Jane Hirschfield,
“Holy Night” by Da Albergotti,
“Migration Instinct” by Keetje Kuipers,
“Variations on a Psalm” by Ed Hirsch,
“Every Machine Has Its Parts” by Bob Hicok

Mary Ruefle, My Private Property (Wave Books)

Jim Shepard, The World to Come: Collected Stories (Knopf)

Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury)

Vijay Seshadri, 3 Sections: Poems (Graywolf)

Poems:
Personal Essay
Pacific Fishes from Canada
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Memoir
Guide for the Perplexed
As If
Nursing Home
Rereading
Hell
Purgatory, the Film
Purgatory, the Sequel
Heaven

Rachel Cusk, Outline (Picador)

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems:
“Broken Cup” by Margaret Gibson,
“Welcome to the Jungle” by Morgan Parker,
“Love Poem” by Michael Marberry,
“The Autistic Son” by Scott Morgan,
“Porn” by Dorothea Lasky, and
“My Father’s Laundry” by Sue Ellen Thompson

Gerald Stern, Galaxy Love (Norton)

Poems:
Galaxy Love
Space and Time
Perish the Day
Bess, Zickel, Warhol, Arendt
Ruby Red
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 1939
Ritsos
Gelato
Loneliness
One War

Mary Miller, Always Happy Hour: Stories (Liveright Publishing Corporation)

Akhil Sharma, A Life of Adventure and Delight (Norton)

Christopher Buckley, Star Journal (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Molly Patterson, Rebellion (Harper)

The Best American Poetry 2016 – Ed. Edward Hirsch and David Lehman (Scribner)

“The Lady Responds” by Juliana Gray, “Bible Study” by Tony Hoagland, “Morning Tableau” by Ishion Hutchinson, “Everything Will be Taken Away” by Morgan Parker, “Variation of a Line from Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Five Flights Up’” by Stanley Plumly, and “Drones: An Exercise in Awe-Terror” by Nomi Stone

Isaac Babel, The Isaac Babel Collected Stories (Norton)

The King, p. 129.
Crossing the River Zbrucz, p. 203.
Pan Apolek, p. 216.
The Story of a Horse, p. 262.
The Continuation of the Story of a Horse, p. 304.
The Kiss, p. 350.
The Story of My Dovecote, p. 365.
First Love, p. 376.
The Awakening, p. 392.
Guy di Maupassant, p. 443.
Di Grasso, p. 463

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Singer” by Maxine Scates, “Snow White” by Chloe Honum, “Yellow Claw” by Lucia Perillo, “Snapshot” by Kurt Brown, “Mudfest” by Marianne Boruch, and “Advertising” by John Challis

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press)

Elisa Albert, After Birth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination: Poems (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

From the section entitled, Brutal Imagination:
“How I Got Born” p. 5
“Who Am I?” p. 7
“Why I am Not a Woman” p. 18
“Uncle Tom in Heaven” p. 27
“Birthing” p. 53

From the section entitled, Running Man:
“Piss” p. 68
“Home” p. 75
“First Crimes” p. 83
“Running Man” p. 105

The Best American Poetry 2016 – Ed. Edward Hirsch and David Lehman (Scribner)

“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse” by Dana Gioia, “Girls” by Erin Hoover, “As If” by Julie Kane, “Ode While Awaiting Execution” by Thomas Lux, “My Father’s ‘Norton Introduction to Literature,’ Third Edition (1981)” by Hai-Dang Phan, and “Peaches” by Adrienne Su

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Gretchen Marquett, May Day (Graywolf Press)

Sheila Kohler, Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir (Penguin Books)

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“The Weave” – Charles Johnson, and “Night Movers” – Perry Janes

Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems (Graywolf Press)

The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review – Ed. Paris Review and Lorin Stein (Penguin Books)

“Lelah” – Angela Flournoy and “Short Days” – Sarah Manguso

Jana Prikryl , The After Party (Tim Duggan Books)

Debra Spark, Unknown Caller (LSU Press)

Han Kang, The Vegetarian (Hogarth)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Pine” by Susan Stewart
“Elegy with a City in It” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
“Book of Forget” by Rebecca Hazelton
“John Clare” by Michael Dickman
“Rape Joke” by Patricia Lockwood
“Ghazal” by Marilyn Hacker

Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House Press)

The Best American Poetry 2016 – Ed. Edward Hirsch and David Lehman (Scribner)

“Sentence” by Christopher Bakken, “O Esperanza!” by Catherine Barnett, “Whitman, 1841” by Rick Barot, “Daylight Savings” by Jill Bialosky, “Fruits de Mer” by Paula Bohince, and “Ugglig” by Michelle Boisseau

Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets” – Zadie Smith, and “Vision” – Tiffany Briers

Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

“Ranch Girl” – Maile Meloy and “Paper Losses” – Lorrie Moore

Ian McEwan, Saturday (Anchor)

The Best American Poetry 2016 – Ed. Edward Hirsch and David Lehman (Scribner)

“Here I Am” by Martin Espada
“Font” by Linda Gregerson
“Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City” by Jennifer Grotz
“Minutia” by T.R. Hummer
“Psalm for the Lost” by Paul Mariani
“At the Tribunals” by Patrick Rosal
“The Drummer Omar: Poet of Percussion” by Al Young

Yannis Ritsos, Diaries of Exile (Archipelago)

“Introduction”
“October 29” p. 5
“November 4” p. 11
“November 13” p. 25
“November 23” p. 39
“December 11” p. 62
“November 29” p. 48
“January 25” p. 92

Susan Steinberg, Spectacle: Stories (Graywolf Press)

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Arda Collins, It is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Robert Pinsky, At the Foundling Hospital: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

“Instrument,” “Creole,” “Mixed Chorus,” “The Foundling Tokens,” “Culture,” “Grief,” “The City,” “The Robots,” and “Running with Noodles.”

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Trim Palace” – Alexander Maksik and “By the Time You Read This” – Yannick Murphy

Philip Levine, New Selected Poems (Knopf)

“To a Child Trapped in a Barbershop,” p.18;
“Francisco, I’ll Bring You Fresh Carnations,” p.180;
“You Can Have It,” p.196;
“To Cipriano, in the Wind,” p.218;
“Animals Are Passing from Our Lives,” p.36;
“Angel Butcher,” p.79;
“They Feed They Lion,” p. 81;
“On the Murder of Lieutenant Jose Del Castillo….”, p.144;
“Gift For A Believer,” p.137;
“Ask The Roses,” p.146;
“Ashes,” p.168;

also, “What Work Is”, “The Simple Truth,” and “Ode for Mrs. William Settle” from other books

Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Books)

Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Charles Baxter’s “Poor Devil” and Edmund White’s “Cinnamon Skin”

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Madame Bovary’s Greyhound” – Karen Russell and “If It Were Anyone Else” – Lincoln Michel

Magda Szabo, The Door (New York Review Books)

Rachel Zucker, The Pedestrians (Wave Books)

Czeslaw Milosz, Selected Poems, 1931-2004 (Ecco)

Rebecca Gayle Howell, Render/An Apocalypse (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review – Ed. Lorin Stein (Penguin Books)

“A Dark and Winding Road” by Ottessa Moshfegh “Mister Lytle” by John Jeremiah Sullivan “Letter from Williamsburg” by Kristin Dombek

Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude (Random House)

Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights (New York Review of Books)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson

“Pine” by Susan Stewart, “Too Many Pigeons to Count and One Dove” by Mary Szybist, “The Hum of Zug Island” by Jamaal May, “Watching a Woman on the M101 Express” by Kamilah Aisha Moon, “Unwilling” by Nance Van Winckel, and “Boy. Child Without Legs. Getting off a Chair” by Oliver de la Paz

Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World: Stories (University of Georgia Press)

Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems (FSG)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson

“What the Body Knows” by Joni Tevis and “How She Remembers It” by Rick Bass

Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea (Vintage)

Garrett Hongo, Coral Road: Poems (Knopf)

Jonathan Galassi, Left-handed: Poems (Knopf)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“The Zen Thing” by Emma Duffy-Comparnone and “Winter Elders” by Shawn Vestal

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star, translation by Benjamin Moser 2011 (New Directions)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Geese” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Approach of the Horizon” by Louise Gluck, “Albion” by Philip Levine, “Elegies” by Kathleen Ossip, and “Your Ghost” by Hillary Gravendyk

Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

“Reve Haitien” by Ben Fountain, and “Son of the Wolfman” by Michael Chabon

Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press)

Nick Flynn, My Feelings (Graywolf Press)

Robin Black, Life Drawing (Random House)

Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)

Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (FSG)

Scott Blackwood, See How Small (Back Bay Books)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“The Prospects” by Michelle Seaton and “Waking Luna” by Aisha Gawad.

Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Mindful” by Rachel Zucker, “My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children” by Rebecca Gayle Howell, “How to Triumph Like a Girl” by Ada Limon, “Visit #1” by Afaa Michael Weaver, “The Streetlamp Above Me Darkens” by Tarfia Faizullah, and “Mimesis” by Fady Joudah

Paul Celan: 70 Poems (Persea Books)

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

Tom Sleigh, Station Zed: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life (Knopf)

Mark Slouka, Brewster: A Novel (Norton)

Diane Seuss, Four-Legged Girl: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (Norton)

Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III: Poems (FSG)

Donald Antrim, Emerald Light in the Air (Picador)

James Lasdun, Bluestone: New and Selected Poems (FSG)

Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House)

Patrick Modiano, Missing Person (Godine)

Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“Why We Must Support PBS” by Bob Hicok, “A Tab of Iron on the Tongue” by Sandra Lim, “City Horse” by Henri Cole, “Monologue During a Blackout” by Kara Candito, and “Calling All Gods” by D.A. Powell

Jenny Offill, Department of Speculation (Vintage)

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

“After Suicide” by Matt Rasmussen, “The Ultrasound” by David Hornibrook, “Self-Portrait with Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong, “Listening to Virginia” by Jeffrey Harrison, “Tallahatchie by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, “Villon’s Epitaph (Ballade of the Hanged Men)” by Francois Villon. trans. Richard Wilbur

Horacio Castellanos Moya, The Dream of My Return (New Directions)

The Best American Poetry 2013 – Ed. Denise Duhamel (Scribner)

“Book of Forgot” by Rebecca Hazelton, “Green Man, Blue Pill” by John Hennessy, “All-American” by David Hernandez, “A Parable” by Anna Maria Hong, “Why I Write Poetry” by Major Jackson, “George W. Bush” by Mark Jarman, and “it’s hard as so much is” by Lauren Jensen

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Robert Coover’s The Reader; and Ayse Papatya Bucak’s Iconography

Kim Addonizio, The Palace of Illusions: Stories (Soft Skull)

Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night (Vintage)

Jill Bialosky, The Players: Poems (Knopf)

Francesca Marciano, The Other Language: Stories (Vintage)

Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (FSG)

The Best American Poetry 2013 – Ed. Denise Duhamel (Scribner)

Billy Collins,Founding; Martha Collins, [white paper 24]; Kwame Dawes, Death; Connie Deanovich, Divestiture; Timothy Donnelly, Apologies from the Ground Up; Stephen Dunn, The Statue of Responsibility; Daisy Fried, This Need Not be a Comment on Death; Amy Gerstler, Womanishness

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Elizabeth McCracken’s Some Terpsichore; Chuck Palahnuik’s Escort

Andre Dubus III, Townie: A Memoir (Norton)

Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (Norton)

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

W.S. Di Piero, There Were Such Things; Natasha Tretheway, Enlightenment; Carl Phillips, Your Body Down In Gold; Afaa Michael Weaver, Blues in Five/Four the Violence in Chicago; Mary Ruefle,During a Break from Feeling; Bob Hicok, Getting By.

Patricia Smith, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press)

Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)

Brian Morton, Florence Gordon (Houghton Mifflin)

Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Natalie Diaz,Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera; Sarah Lindsay,Origin; Paisley Rekdal, W.C. Fields Takes a Walk; Beckian Fritz Goldberg, My Neighbor’s Body; Timothy Donnelly,The Earth Itself; Jake Adam York, Self-Portrait as Superman (Alternate Take).

Paul Harding, Tinkers (Bellevue Press)

Barbara Hamby, On the Street of Divine Love: New & Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Charles Baxter’s What Happens in Hell; and Elizabeth Ellen’s Teen Culture

Akhil Sharma, Family Life (Norton)

Philip Larkin, The Complete Poems (FSG)

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Richard Ford’s Reunion, and William Gay’s The Paperhanger.

The Best American Poetry 2013 – Ed. Denise Duhamel (Scribner)

Wendy Barker, Books, Bath Towels, and Beyond; Jan Beatty, Youngest Known Savior; Bruce Bond, The Unfinished Slave; Traci Brimhall, Dear Thanatos; Jericho Brown, Hustle; Andrei Codrescu, Five One-Minute Eggs

Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner)

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World; Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain.

Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem (Knopf)

Karolina Waclawiak, How to Get into the Twin Palms (Two Dollar Radio)

The Best American Poetry 2013 – Ed. Denise Duhamel (Scribner)

Kim Addonizio, Divine; Sherman Alexie, Pachydrem; Nathan Anderson, Stupid Sandwich; Nin Andrews, The Art of Drinking Tea; John Ashberry, Resisting Arrest.

Tessa Hadley, Married Love (Harper Perennial)

Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters (Norton)

Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Davy Rothbart, Human Snowball; Amy Hempel, A Full-Service Shelter.

Sjón, The Blue Fox: A Novel (FSG)

Megan Sexton, Swift Hour: Poems (Mercer University Press)

Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems 1956-1998 (Ecco)

Andre Dubus III, Dirty Love (Norton)

Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning (Yale University Press)

Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Shannon Cain, Juniper Beach; Joshua Cohen, Emission.

Conversation with Bill Henderson, Editor of the Pushcart Prize Anthologies

Robert Wrigley, Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (Penguin)

Philip Schultz, The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse (W. W. Norton & Company)

Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Sommer Browning, Patricia Smith, Marianne Boruch, Diane Wakosi, G.C. Waldrep

C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (Princeton University Press)

Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (Europa)

Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Joyce Carol Oates, Rape: A Love Story (DeCapo)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: A Novel (Knopf)

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Off, Aimee Bender; Aurora, Junot Diaz.

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Sheila Kohler’s Baboons and David Foster Wallace’s Incarnations of Burned Children

Kevin Canty, Where the Money Went: Stories (Vintage)

Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife: Poems (Faber and Faber, Inc.)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Marianne Moore, The Fish; Thomas Campion, Now Winter Nights Enlarge; Margaret Atwood, Variation on the Word Sleep; John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale; Charles Simic, Needle.

Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (Vintage)

Grace Schulman, Without a Claim: Poems (Mariner)

Pamela Erens, Virgins (Tin House Books)

Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Christian Flores Garcia, Ted Kooser, Laura Rodley, Adam Zagajewski and Deborah Brown

Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Erin McGraw, Punchline; Julian Rios, From Procession of Shadows: The Novel of Tamoga

Herta Müller, The Appointment (Picador)

Michael Waters, Gospel Night (BOA Editions)

Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Matt Hart, Matt Mason, Christine Gelineau, Alan Michael Parker, Elizabeth Powell and Fred Moramarco.

Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Heather McHugh, What He Thought; From Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher; Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est; Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck; Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It.

Suzanne Rivecca, Death is Not an Option: Stories (Xlibris)

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha (Harper Perennial)

Richard Bausch, 1-900; and Lydia Davis, Television.

Dana Goodyear, The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard (Norton)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Maria Hummel, Kathleen Flenniken, Joy Katz, Elaine Terranova, Nancy Mitchell, Jane Springer and Chad Sweeney

James Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Susanne Antonetta, “Hosts”; E. C. Osondu, “Janjaweed Wife”.

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”; Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”; Anonymous, “Western Wind”; Queen Elizabeth I, “When I Was Fair and Young”; J.D. McClatchy, “Fado”; Edward Arlington Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy”.

Gregoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest (Mariner)

Edward Hirsch, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (Knopf)

Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Penguin Classics)

David Wojahn, World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (W. W. Norton & Company)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

“How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot” T.S. Eliot; “A Married State,” Katherine Phillips; “The Scholars,” W.B. Yeats; “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams,” Kenneth Koch; “This Be the Verse,” Philip Larkin.

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Elizabeth Tallent, “Never Come Back”; Jack Driscoll, “That Story”.

Kwame Dawes, Wheels (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.)

Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation (Grove Press)

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Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by William Trowbridge, Patrick Phillips, Stephen Burt, David Rigsbee, Kathleen Graber and Steve Myers

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Katherine Anne Porter, “Theft”; E. B. White “The Second Tree From the Corner”.

Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande Books)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Lawrence Sargent Hall, “The Ledge”; Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers”.

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press)

Teju Cole, Open City (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Donald Platt, Alice Friman, Janice N. Harrington, Pamela Stewart, Claire Bateman, Sarah Busse

Caitlin Macy, Spoiled (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Constantine Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians”; Stephen Dobyns, “Tomatoes”; Robert Frost, “Home Burial”; Gail Mazur, “Michaelangelo”; Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”.

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

L. Annette Binder, “Nephilim”; Anna Solomon, “The Lobster Mafia Story”.

Gerald Stern, In Beauty Bright (W. W. Norton & Company)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel”; Thomas Nashe, “In Time of Plague”; Allen Ginsberg, “America”; James Dickey, “For the Last Wolverine”; Anne Winters, “Night Wash”.

Tomas Transtromer, The Half-Finished Heaven (Graywolf Press) and The Deleted World (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Anchor Books)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Richard Cecil, Leon Stokesbury, John Rybicki, Tara Hart, Alan Michael Parker and John Murillo.

Jim Shepard, You Think That’s Bad (Vintage Paperback)

Jill Ciment, Heroic Measures: a Novel (Vintage)

Philipp Meyer, American Rust (Spiegel and Grau)

Cathy Park Hong, Engine Empire (W. W. Norton & Company)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Lydia Conklin’s “Rockaway”; Bret Anthony Johnston’s “Soldiers of Fortune”.

Ron Padgett, How Long (Coffee House Press)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

John Updike, “Gesturing”; Carolyn Farrell, “Proper Library”.

Amy Newman, Dear Editor (Persea)

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Ilya Kaminsky, Doug Goetsch, Stephen Dobyns, Gerald Stern, Mark Halliday and Karla Huston.

Darin Strauss, Half a Life: A Memoir (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Rita Dove, “Gospel”; Gerald Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur and Pied Beauty”; Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”; Jane Kenyon, “Otherwise”; George Herbert, “Virtue”.

Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2012 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Celeste Ng’s “Girls at Play”; Sandra Leong’s “We Don’t Deserve This”

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Eavan Boland, “A Marriage for the Millennium”; Frank Bidart, “The Yoke”; D.H. Lawrence, “Bavarian Gentians”; Gregory Corso, “Marriage”; Emily Dickinson, “Wild Nights-Wild Nights” and “If You Were Coming in the Fall”; Constantine Cavafy, “Body, Remember”.

Wislawa Szymborska, Monologue of a Dog (Harcourt)

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Mary-Beth Hughes’s “Double Happiness”; Anthony Doerr’s “The River Nemunas”.

Patrick Rosal, Boneshepherds (Persea)

Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days (Vintage)

Dean Young, Fall Higher (Copper Canyon Press)

Bruce Jay Friedman, A Mother’s Kisses: A Novel (Open Road Media)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Elizabeth Bishop, “The Man-Moth”; Christopher Smart, “From Jubilate Agno”; Atiila Jozsef, “The Seventh”; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”; Gail Mazur, “In Houston”; William Carlos Williams, “Love Song”.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Pam Houston’s “The Best Girlfriend You Never Had”; Thom Jones’s “I Want to Live”.

Jean Echenoz, Ravel: A Novel (The New Press)

Matthew Zapruder, Come on All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Marily Chin’s “Three Buddhist Tales”; Linda McCullough Moore’s “Final Dispositions”.

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Alan Shapiro, Lucie Brock-Broido, Nancy Eimers, Jennifer Grotz and David Wojahn.

Marisa Silver, Alone with You (Simon & Schuster)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Marilyn Nelson, “The Ballad of Aunt Geneva”; Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses”; Ezra Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”; Thom Gunn, “Yoko”; Sappho, “Artfully Adorned Aphrodite”; Raymond Carver, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”.

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (Anchor)

Meghan O’Rourke, Once: Poems (Norton)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Raymond Carver’s “Where I’m Calling From”; Martha Gellhorn’s “Miami-New York”

Terrance Hayes, Lightheaded: Poems (Penguin Poets)

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Tony Earley’s “Mr. Tall” and Anthony Marra’s “Chechnya”

Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees (Open Letter)

Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press)

Roberto Bolano, Amulet (New Directions)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Ellen Voigt, “The Hen”; William Cowper, “Lines Written During a Period of Insanity”; Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” and “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock”; Robert Duncan, “My Mother Would Be a Falconress”; Stuart Dischell, “Days of Me”; Sir Walter Raleigh, “On the Cards and Dice” and “Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester”.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Donald Barthelme, A City of Churches; Harold Brodkey, Verona: A Young Woman Speaks.

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by William Olsen, Jay Rogoff, Joanne Fuhrman, Bob Hicok and Jean Valentine

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Louise Gluck, Laura Kasischke, Emily Toder, Philip Levine, CK Williams and Ravi Shankar.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Gish Jen, “Birthmates”; Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”.

Nazim Hikmet, The Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Persea)

Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way (Calamari Press)

Rosanna Warren, Ghost in a Red Hat: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief (Dial Press)

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Charles Harper Webb, “Liver”; John Clare, “Badger”; C.D. Wright, “Self Portrait on a Rocky Mount”; Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”; Joyce Peseroff, “The Hardness Scale”; Robert Lowell, “Skunk Hour”.

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Joe Meno, “Children are the Only Ones Who Blush”; Valerie Vogrin, “Things We’ll Need for the Coming Difficulties”.

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

John Skelton, “To Mistress Margery Wentworth”; W.S. Gilbert, “When You’re Lying Awake with a Dismal Headache”; Erin Beliu, “On Being Fired Again”; John Berryman, “Dream Song 14”; Fulke Greville, “Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney”; Ishmael Reed, “I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra”.

Jess Row, Nobody Ever Gets Lost (FiveChapters Books)

Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay (Archipelago)

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Seth Fried, “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre”; Susan Perabo “Shelter”

Joanna Fuhrman, Pageant (Alice James Books)

Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press)

Charles Simic, Sixty Poems (Harcourt)

Evan O’Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Counterpoint)

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Patty Seyburn, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Rodney Jones, Terrance Hayes, Sharon Dolin and Brigit Pegeen Kelly.

Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (Vintage)

Dorothy Barresi, American Fanatics (University of Pittsburgh Press)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Bernard Malamud, “The German Refugee”; William Saroyan, “Resurrection of a Life”.

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Stephen Dunn, Gail Mazur, Tony Hoagland, Philip Schultz, Timothy Liu and Chase Twichell.

Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2011 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Jess Row, “Sheep May Safely Graze”; Deb Olin Unferth, “Pet”.

Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (Norton), Class 2

Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (Norton), Class 1

Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life (Vintage)

Dylan Landis, Normal People Don’t Live Like This (Persea)

Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women: A Novel (Scribner)

Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Li-Young Lee, “Irises”; Robert Francis, “Waxwings”; Philip Levine, “A Sleepless Night”; Zbigniew Machej, “Orchards in July”’; Robert Frost, “The Most of It”; Robert Creeley, “Like They Say”

W. S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by: Ted Kooser, Bob Hicock, Maxine Scates, Bruce Smith, Kary Wayson, Carolyne Wright

Julie Sheehan, Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise (W. W. Norton & Company)

Ludmilla Petrusheveskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (Penguin Books)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Alexander Godin, “My Dead Brother Comes to America”; Alice Adams, “Roses, Rhododendron”

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Charles McLeod, “Edge Boys”; Austin Bunn, Everything All at Once”

Amy Gerstler, Dearest Creature (Penguin Poets) (Penguin Books)

Wesley McNair, Lovers of the Lost (David R Godine)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Tennessee Williams, “The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin”; Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Key”

J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace: A Novel (Penguin Books)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Denise Levertov, “Living”; Rainer Maia Rilke, “Going Blind”; W.S. Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death”; Ch’ang Yu, “A Ringing Bell”’ Muso Soseki, “Old Man at Leisure”; Southern Bushman, “The Day We Die”; Anna Kamienska, “A Prayer That Will Be Answered”

Jonathan Dee, The Privileges: A Novel (Random House)

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by: Frank Bidart, Geoffrey Brock, William Heyen, Paul Muldoon and David Moolten

Christine Schutt, All Souls (Mariner Books)

Michael Dickman, The End of the West (Copper Canyon Press)

Nam Le, The Boat: Stories (Vintage)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

James Applewhite, “Prayer for My Son”; Ryszard Krynicki, “I Can’t Help You”; Wang Wei, “A Farewell”; Naomi Lazard, “Ordinance on Arrival”; David Kirby, “To a French Structuralist”; D.H. Lawrence, “Butterfly”; Shu Ting, “Perhaps”

John Wray, Lowboy: A Novel (Picador)

Taije Silverman, Houses Are Fields: Poems (LSU Press)

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by: Louise Glück, Paisley Rekdal, Henri Cole and Laura Kasischke

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”; Cynthia Ozick, “The Shawl”

Denise Duhamel, Ka-Ching! (Pitt Poetry Series) (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Moshin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harvest Books)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Eamon Grennan, “Woman at Lit Window”; Joseph Brodsky, “Odysseus to Telemachus”; Gunnar Ekelof, “Greece”; Li Chi-ing Chao, “Hopelessness”; Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”.

Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins)

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Richard Powers “Modulation” and Christie Hodgen “Tom & Jerry”

Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by: Peter Everwine, B. H. Fairchild, Marie Howe, Rita Dove, Alison Townsend

Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems, 1931-2004 (Knopf)

John Haskell, Out of My Skin: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Jean Stafford, “The Interior Castle”; Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”

Liam Rector, The Executive Director of the Fallen World (Phoenix Poets) (University Of Chicago Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Khaled Mattewa, Marvin Bell, Linda Gregerson and Galway Kinnell

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus: A Novel (Algonquin Books)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Louis Simpson, “After Midnight”; Elizabeth Bishop, “Brazil, January 1, 1502”; Robinson Jeffers, “Carmel Point” and“Cremation”; Yoruba Tribe, “Invocation of the Creator”; Al Zolynas, “Love in the Classroom”; Aleksander Wat, “From Persian Parables”

James Lasdun, It’s Beginning to Hurt: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Susan Choi, A Person of Interest: A Novel (Penguin Book)

Major Jackson, Hoops: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century – Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Mariner Books)

Dorothy Parker, “Here We Are”; Philip Roth, “Defender of the Faith”

Matthew Dickman, All-American Poem (American Poetry Review)

Stacey Richter, Twin Study: Stories (Counterpoint)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Jean Follain, “A Taxidermist and Music of Spheres”; Ted Kooser, “Late Nights in Minnesota”; Tomas Transtromer, “Tracks”; Gary Snyder, “Late October Camping in the Sawtooths”; Rolf Jacobsen, “Rubber”.

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories – Lydia Peele, Sweethearts of the Rodeo; and Robert Olen Butler, 18 1/2

Rosanna Warren, Departure (W. W. Norton & Company)

Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses: A Novel (Picador)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Steve Kowit, “Notice”; Seamus Heaney, “From ‘Clearances,’ In Memoriam M.K.H.”; Francis Ponge, “The Frog”; Chang Yang-Hao, “Recalling the Past at T’ung Pass”; Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

Eduardo Galeano, The Story of the Lizard Who Had the Habit of Dining on His Wives; Herve Guibert, The Hamman

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Stories – Andrew Porter, Departure; and Nam Le, Cartagena

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Raymond Carver, Wine; Su Tung-po, On a Painting by Wang the Clerk of Yen Ling; Robert Morgan, Honey; Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937; Philip Larkin, The Card-Players

Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors (Viking)

Meghan O’Rourke, Halflife: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Random House)

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Joan Murray, Robert Bly, Thylias Moss, G.C. Waldrep and Deborah Keenan

Brock Clarke, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (Algonquin Books)

Brian Turner, Here Bullet (Alice James Books)

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love; Nicola Barker, G-String

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum, and Heidy Shayla, Himmelen

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Judah al-Harizi, The Lightning; Denise Levertov, Eye Mask and Witness; May Swenson, Question; Lawrence Raab, Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window; David Wagoner, The Author of American Ornithology Sketches a Bird, New Extinct and Loons Mating.

Niccolo Ammaniti, I’m Not Scared (Anchor)

Eleanor Lerman, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds: Poems (Sarabande Book)

Lore Segal, Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Stories (The New Press)

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Edward Hirsch, Adrian C. Louis and Galway Kinnell

Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories (W. W. Norton & Company)

Tom Sleigh, Space Walk: Poems (Mariner Books)

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The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

Lorrie Moore, Willing; Joyce Carol Oates, Mark of Satan

Meena Alexander, Quickly Changing River (Triquarterly Books)

Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals (Scribner)

Carl Dennis, Unknown Friends (Penguin)

Short Story by Matthew Klam: Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by Eleanor Lerman, Li-Young Lee, Mary Ruefle, John Bradley and Liam Rector

Aleksander Hemon, The Question of Bruno (Vintage)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

Anna Swir, I Wash the Shirt, The Same Inside, and The Second Madrigal;
Antonio Machado, Rainbow at Night and Summer Night;
Robert Hass, Late Spring; Allen Ginsberg, Strange New Cottage in Berkeley;
Galway Kinnell, Daybreak

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

Sandra Cisneros, Never Marry a Mexican; Banana Yoshimoto, Helix.

A Conversation with Author Lesley Dormen

Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Back Bay Books)

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems By:

• Charles Simic
• Meghan O’Rourke
• Lynn Shapiro
• Greta Wrolstad
• Tony Hoagland
• Gerald Stern

Elizabeth Alexander, American Sublime (Graywolf Press)

Rebecca Curtis, Twenty Grand (Harper Perennial)

Jennifer Egan, Two Short Stories: Found Objects; Selling the General

Two Stories:

Found Objects

Selling the General

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

• Mary Morris, The Lifeguard
• Can Xue, The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

• Dan Chaon, Shepherdess
• Sage Marsters, Bear Story

Alice Mattison, The Book Borrower (Harper)

Dana Goodyear, Honey and Junk (Norton)

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems By:

• James Harms
• Michael Waters
• Roxane Beth Johnson
• Gary Short
• Patricia Smith

Jean Thompson, Throw Like A Girl: Stories (Simon & Schuster)

Grace Schulman, The Broken String (Houghton Mifflin)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

• Mary Oliver, The Kingfisher
• Theodore Roethke, Moss-Gathering
• Li Po, Ancient Air
• Charles Simic, Empire of Dreams
• Zbigniew Herbert, Elegy of Fortinbras

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

• Nathan Englander, The Twenty-Seventh Man
• Tatyana Tolstaya, On the Golden Porch

Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 – Ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press)

Poems by:

• Marvin Bell
• David Kirby
• Philip Levine
• Khaled Mattawa
• Grace Schulman

Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)

Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To: Stories (Simon & Schuster)

Lawrence Joseph, Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry – Ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Mariner Books)

• Kenneth Rexroth, Signature of All Things
• Tu Fu, Winter Dawn
• Bronislaw Maj, An August Afternoon
• Joanne Kyger, Destruction
• Raymond Carver, The Window, The Cobweb

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories – Ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books)

• Francine Prose, Talking Dog
• Salman Rushdie, The Free Radio

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet in New York (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document (Scribner)

Poets of the New Century – Ed. Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson (David R Godine)

Poems by:

• Jane Shore
• Charles Harper Webb