Pushcart prize XXXIX, 2015 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Includes bibliographical references and author index to the series since 1976.

The zen thing / Emma Duffy-Comparone -- What the body knows / Joni Tevis -- Why we must support PBS / Bob Hicok -- Madame Bovary's greyhound / Karen Russell -- Playing at violence / Pacifique Irankunda -- Winter elders / Shawn Vestal -- A tab of iron on the tongue / Sandra Lim -- If it were anyone else / Lincoln Michel -- Annie Radcliffe, you are loved / Barrett Swanson -- City horse / Henri Cole -- The ice committee / David Means -- Breaking it / Mary Hood -- Monologue during a blackout / Kara Candito -- Say / Joe Wilkins -- Calling all odds / D.A. Powell -- My White House days / Thomas E. Kennedy -- Geese / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- The mother / Latoya Watkins -- The news cycle / Daniel Tovrov -- Approach of the horizon / Louise GluÌck -- The fiction writer / Maribeth Fischer -- Albion / Philip Levine -- The prospects / Michelle Seaton -- My mother told us not to have children / Rebecca Gayle Howell -- The tower / Frederic Tuten -- How to triumph like a girl / Ada LimoÌn -- Elegies / Kathleen Ossip -- The last days of the baldock / Inara Verzemnieks -- Your ghost / Hillary Gravendyk -- La pulchra nota / Molly McNett -- Blue / Russell Banks -- Visit #1 / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Hippies and beats / Edward Hoagland -- Pine / Susan Stewart -- Animals / Michael Kardos -- Elegy with a city in it / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- The unfollowing / Lyn Hejinian -- How she remembers it / Rick Bass -- "Too many pigeons to count and one dove" / Mary Szybist -- Mysteries of Thoreau, unsolved / Rebecca Solnit -- The streetlamp above me darkens / Tarfia Faizullah -- Days of being mild / Xuan Juliana Wang -- Like a jet / Sina Queyras -- The dance contest / Wells Tower -- Mindful / Rachel Zucker -- Unwilling / Nance Van Winckel -- Book of forget / Rebecca Hazelton -- The weirdos / Ottessa Moshfegh -- Trim palace / Alexander Maksik -- Captcha / Stephanie Strickland -- Watching a woman on the M101 Express / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Black plank / Nancy Geyer -- Boy. Child without legs. Getting off a chair / Oliver de la Paz -- For beds / Matthew Vollmer -- The hum of Zug Island / Jamaal May -- By the time you read this / Yannick Murphy -- Pigmeat / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- John Clare / Michael Dickman -- Fables / Bennett Sims -- Mimesis / Fady Joudah -- Waking Luna / Aisha Gawad -- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood -- Ghazal / Marilyn Hacker -- Unmoving like a mighty river stilled / Alan Rossi -- Superwhite / Jim White.