The nominations for the Pushcart Prize for 2023
Butter, by B.J. Buckley
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2022/butt.html
How I Met Your Mother by George Bilgere
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/your.html
Pot Luck Supper: Aunt Lavinia Strikes by Fred Chappel
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2023/luck.html
Sonnet for Grandmothers, by Melanie Claire Blinn Eulberg
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2023/sonn.html
Things of August: An Alzheimer’s Reflection, by Michael Escoubas
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2023/thin.html
Trattoria Venezia, by Mary Jo Balistreri
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/trat.html
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Runners-ups:
A Catamaran’s Fantasy by MFrost Delaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2023/cata.html
Along the Spoon River With Edgar Lee Masters by Michael Escoubas
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/alon.html
A Musical Riddle by Bob Moore
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/musi.html
As I Approach That Fading Light by Mark Lipman
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2023/new2.html
Aspens in a Winter Garden by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2023/aspe.html
As the Palette Wakes by Jane Lang
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2023/viat.html
August rain: the best of the summer gone by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2023/augu.html
Beauty is Its Own Reason for Being by Michael Escoubas
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2023/new.html
Beyond These Poems There be Dragons by Patty Dickson Pieczka
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2023/book5.html
Dancing With Grandma Grace by James Thielman
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2023/danc.html
Dear Pablo by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/dear2.html
Deposits Unto Heaven by MFrostDelaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/depo.html
Emissary of Lightby Mary Jo Balistreri
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2023/emis.html
Epistolary by Ellaraine Lockie
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/epis.html
Every Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2005/Every.html
Finding Common Ground by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/inter.html
Headed Home by Gail Denham
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2023/head.html
Help Me Out Here by Claire Scott
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2023/help.html
His Limbo Soliloquy by Carl Palmer
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2023/inte.html
If I Rise by Alice Pero
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/new.html
Living Dolls by Andrena Zawinski
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/new2.html
Oh, No . . . Crows by Priscilla Turner Spada
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/crow.html
On the Mahicannituck–the Hudson River by Paulette Demers Turco
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2023/mahi.html
Our Lady of Antelope Canyon by MFrostDelaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2023/lady.html
Potatoes are Miracles by Rick Lupert
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2022/pota.html
Readers are Still Waiting by Mary Langer Thompson
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/read.html
Rosebud by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2023/rose.html
Showtime! by Gay Williford
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2023/show.html
Sixty-Five by E. J. Rode
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2023/sixt.html
Starry Night by Lana Hechtman Ayers
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/new.html
Sympathetic Magpies by William J. Harris
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/symp.html
The First Snow by Judy Lorenzen
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2022/firs2.html
The Proposal by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2023/prop.html
The Space Within by Diane Elayne Dees
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/book3.html
The Swan by Ellen Reynard
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2023/new.html
The Tortoise and the Race by Angela Jackson
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2023/new2.html
To Sharmagne The Ragged Edges of Reality by Victor M. Riehl
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/shar.html
To Sleep by E.J. Rode
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/slee.html
Trying to Teach my Mother to Crochet by Andrea Potos
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2023/new3.html
Tsé bighínílíní, by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2023/bigh.html
Unrequited Love by Sharmagne LEland-St., John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2023/unre.html
Upon the Death of a Poet by James Green
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2023/upon.html
View from Inside by Candace Armstrong
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2023/view.html
View From the Deck September 2023 by David Matthews
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2023/view.html
What the Donkey Saw, by Rick Lupert
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2023/what.html
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Honourable Mention:
A Cow's Life, Winter by Priscilla Turner Spada
Afterlife Is Right Now by Kathy Cotton and Michael Scott
After the Peak by Paulette Demers Turco
A Lesson in Living Love by Norm Chichester
A Realm of Shattered Time by Michael Graves
Arthritic Tree by Karen O’Leary
A Sonnet for Sharmagne by Carole Mertz
A Strange Stillness, by Scott Shaffer
At Horseshoe Lake by Patty Dickson Pieczka
At Lake Matsubara, Shinshu by Preeth Ganapathy
At the Music Fest by Wilda Morri
At Times I Pretend I Have a Husband by Vaughn Neeld
August Morning by E.J. Rode
Autumn Blaze Red Maple by Jim Thielman
August in Taos by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Barcode by Joel Shavishinsky
Betrothed, by Gloria Viglione
Black & White Photograph, c. 1955 by Candace Turner
Black and White Photograph, c. 1949 by Wilda Morris
Blackberry Picking, by Maralee Gerke
Camouflaged Stillness, by Paulette Demers Turco
Camping Again by Wilda Morris
Catechesis, by Carole Mertz
Catfish, by James Green
Chakira, tell me once again by Silvia Scheibli
Coastal Scene and a Snowy Owl by Bob Moore
Communion by Wilda Morris
Creation’s Voices by Scott Shaffer
Dance me to the end of love by Gail Entrekin
Dedication by Wilda Morris
Diamonds by Maja Trochimczyk
Directions to the Good Life by Judie Rae
Done with Donne by Mary Langer Thompson
Due by Sheri Lindner
Enjoying an October Martini with Dad, by Jeannie Roberts
Falcon, Owl, and Dove by Maralee Gerke
False Hope, by MFrost Delaney
Faux Thaw D. R. James
Fill Vessel with Love by Jeannie Roberts
Finding my Space by Annie Jenkin
Frozen Sun by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Glorious Unrest, by Scott Shaffer
Harmonie in Red, 1908 by Barbara Crooker
Haven’t you ever, like I have, wondered, seeing Alfred Eisenstadt’s
kiss over and over, by Lyn Lifshin
Her Golden Hour by John McCluskey
High on Windy Air by Jim Thielman
Hoppers by B.J. Buckley
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