The nominations for the Pushcart Prize for 2024

And Sing Me to Sleep by Vaughn Neeld
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2024/sing.html

Everywhere and Now by CJ Rakay
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2024/ever.html

Field Notes from an Old Chair by D. R. James 
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2024/

His Hands by Thelma T. Reyna 
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/hand.html

September by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/sept.html

Singer by Paulette Demers Turco
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/sing.html

 

First Runners-Up:

An Axe’s Tale by Bob Moore
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2024/tale.html

The Scene in One Corner of a Green Room by Paulette Demers Turco
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2024/scen.html


Third Place

An Acrostic Golden Shovel for Robert Frost by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2024/gold.html

A Quick Sketch by Priscilla Turner Spada
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/quic.html

Dances at Dusk by Bob Moore
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/danc.html

Eyeless in Gaza: A Prayer for Chanukah 2023* by Joel Savishinsky
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2023/eyel.html

Growing Up in the Fifties by Claire Scott
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/grow.html

Mother Hands by Mikela Bjork
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2024/moth.html

Painting the Tides by Pauli Dutton
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/pain.html

Porch Boppin’ by CJ Rakay
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2024/porc.html

requiem by Marcel Aime Duclos
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2024/requ.html  

Skimming Stones by Yingcai
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2024/skim.html


These are runners-up

After Mourning, by Paulette Demers Turco 
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2024/afte.html

A Golden Shovel Acrostic for Louise Glück by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2023/gold.html

 All I Really Need . . . by Elayne Clift
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2024/real.html

An Evening in Spring by Michael Escoubas
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/even.html

 At the Edge of Shangri-La”, by MFrost Delaney
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2024/edge.html 

At the Edge of the Meadow by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2024/edge.html

Bomb Site by Steven Cramer
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2023/new2.html

Clair de Lune by Claire Booker
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/clai.html

Fade to Dusk by Priscilla Turner Spada
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2024/fade.html

Food of My Youth by Andrea Potos
quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/food.html

He Gave Us Nature: by Thelma T. Reyna
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/gave.html

Honey Bees by Janet Smith Post
quillandparchment.com/archives/August2024/hone.html

I Am Wearing My Mother’s Blouse by Andrea Potos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/wear.html

Indian Relocation 1956", by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2024/indi.html

In the Beginning by Vaughn Neeld
 https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2024/begi.html  

Jigsaw Puzzles by Wilda Morris
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/jigs.html

Lakeside Bird Feeder, Squirrels by D. R. James
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/lake.html

Leaf Fall by D. R. James
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2024/leaf.html

Letting Daddy Teach Me How to Swim by MFrost Delaney
 https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2024/lett.html

Listening to Trees by Wilda Morris
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2024/list.html

Little Lives in Sun and Shadow by Linda Fuller
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/litt.html

Now That Summer's Gone by Sharmagne Leland-St John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2024/that.html

On Earth as It Is by Karla Linn Merrifield
quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2024/eart.html

On this Pale Pink Morning...Christmas Day 1847 by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2024/this.html

Shadow of the Crow by Candace Armstrong
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2024/shad.html

Snake Bite by Kate Kingston
quillandparchment.com/archives/July2024/snak.html

Solace by Paulette Demers Turco
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2024/sola.html

Soon the Scene Will Change by Marcel Aime Duclos
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2024/soon.html

Taste of Paradise, by Michael Escoubas
Quill & Parchment:Taste of Paradise (quillandparchment.com)

The Beginning by CJ Rakay
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2024/begi.html

The Invisible Wind by Yingca

The Muddy Muddy Eel by Ann E. Michael
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2023/mudd.html

The Murder of Bess by Sharmagne Leland-St. John.
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2024/murd.html

The Path Home, by Claire Booker
Quill & Parchment:The Path Home (quillandparchment.com)


The Picture of Love, Kevin, RIP 3/10/23, by MFrost Delaney
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2024/pict.html

The Trap Door, by Laura Foley
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2024/trap.html

Trolls Bowl in Competition Over Mountain Village by Lenora Rain-Lee Good

You are the Moon; I am the Qiantang River by Yingcai
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2024/moon.html

 


Honourable Mention

A
Abode by Gloria Jean Viglione
A Faded Dream by Vaughn Neeld
Air Show: Chicago 4th Of July by Thelma T. Reyna
An Acrostic Golden Shovel poem for Emily Dickinson by Candace Armstrong
Archie by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
A Rose by Any Other Name by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
As Nights Draw Long by Paulette Demers Turco
Atlantic City, Circa 1950, by Elayne Clift
At the End of Summer”, Michael Escoubas
A Walk in the Woods”, Mark Lipman

B
Before First Light–an Acrostic Golden Shovel by Paulette Demers Turco
Being by Laura Foley
Beneath the Strawberry Moon by Annie Jenkin
BIRTHS by Tina Barr
Bookshelf of Dreams, by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
Bridge to Autumn by Michael Escoubas

C
Camping in the Adirondacks by Vaughn Neeld
Civilian Story by Mikela Bjork


D
Dialogue by Wesley D. Sims

E
Ekphrasis by Sharmagne Leland-St.John

F
Facets by Bob Moore
57th Anniversary Conversation by Kathy Cotton
First Poem for August by Mikela Bjork
Fishing Deep Among the Reeds by Michael Escoubas
Flashes of a Crimson Sun by Mark Fleisher
Flight of the Eagle, by Ellen Dooling Reynard
Frozen by Michael Escoubas

G
Genesis by Michael Escoubas
Ghost Trees 2by Maralee Gerke

H
HAPPINESS by Barbara Crooker
Hawk and Harnser by Geoffrey Heptonstall
How wild was the wind by Jane Lang

I
If Only I Were the Wind by Bing Hua
I Knew An Old Lady and She Died by Judy Clarence
Imagine, by Lana Hechtman Ayers
Sun by Mary Jo Balistreri
In the Last Days of July, My Father by Andrea Potos

J
June Memoriam by Andrea Potos

K
Keep Trying, by Laura Foley
Kitchen Roses by Susan Rogers

L
Last Day of May by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Lilacs by Wilda Morris
Loaf Like Whitman Intoxicated by Michael Feld Simon
Looking Towards Smock Mill by Claire Booker
Love Song, by Carole Mertz

M
Motif #1, Priscilla Turner Spada
Mount Wilson by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Mournful Winds by Gay Williford
My Happy Place  by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

N
Neglect by Geoffrey Heptonhstall
November on Parade! by Michael Escoubas
Now that I have a fractured foot, by Wilda Morris


Oh, Beat the Drum Slowly by Gay Williford
On Fresh Fallen Snow”, Paulette Demers Turco
On the Edge of North Hampton Cove by Bob Moore

P
Pink Hula Hoop by Margaret R. Saraco
Pre-Hibernation by Ann E. Michael

R
Rooted Fast by Vaughn Neel

S
Season’s End by Gay Williford
Season of Joy by Michael Escoubas
Serenade, by Michael Escoubas
Skinny Died When I Was 25 by Michael Feld Simon
Sixmile Creek by Scott Shaffer
Snowfall by Yingcai
Soulmates by Karen O’Leary
Stars by Candace Turner
Sudden Fall Wind by Dan Fitzgerald
Summer Dreams by Jim Wilkerson
Summer Nights, by Bob Moore

T
Take in the Scent of Cedars as You Gaze across the Lake, by Paulette Demers Turco
Tempestuous by Renee Butner     
The dead are breathing by John Guzlowski
The First Good Poem for Win by Andrea Potos

 


Return to:

[New] [Archives] [Join] [Contact Us] [Poetry in Motion] [Store] [Staff] [Guidelines]