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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