Pushcart prize XLI, 2017 : 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 story of a true artist / Dominica Phetteplace -- I sing you for an apple / Eric Wilson -- Elk / Robert Wrigley -- The G.R.I.E.F. / Micah Stack -- Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles / Sally Wen Mao -- The hornet among us / Paul Crenshaw -- The spring forecast / Shelley Wong -- Avarice / Charles Baxter -- Scream (or never minding) / Lia Purpura -- Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face / Shane McCrae -- The George Spelvin Players / Rebecca Makkai -- The revolt of the turtles / Stephen Dunn -- If you can't say anything nice write a one-star review / Jane Lancellotti -- Basement delivery / Emily Skillings -- Naming happiness / Monte Reel -- The antique blacks / Adrian Matejka -- Taxidermy / Vladislava Kolosova -- The beating heart of the wristwatch / Martin Espada -- Winter wheat / Doug Crandell -- Consider Oedipus' father / David Tomas Martinez -- The mushroom queen / Liz Ziemska -- Cocaine / Alex Dimitrov -- Beets / Cate Hennessey -- The tallgrass shuffles / Sea Sharp -- The Devil's Triangle / Emma Duffy-Comparone -- The brain is not the United States / Elizabeth Scanlon -- New technologies of reading / Angela Woodward -- From Please bury me in this / Allison Benis White -- The five-pound burrito / T.C. Boyle -- Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods -- Dr. J / Kalpana Narayanan -- Pluto's Gate : Mississippi / James Kimbrell -- Forty-two / Lisa Taddeo -- We would never sleep / David Hernandez -- Priest / Erin McGraw -- Walk / Jane Springer -- Voltaire night / Deb Olin Unferth -- More than this / David Kirby

Narrator / Elizabeth Tallent -- 100 bells / Tarfia Faizullah -- Trash food / Chris Offutt -- From Thank you terror / Mathias Svalina -- The line agent Pascal / Daniel Mason -- The Luoyang poem / Ye Chun -- The physics of turtles / Jenny Hendrix -- Etta James at the Audubon Ballroom / Patricia Spears Jones -- A local's guide to dating in Slocomb County / Chris Drangle -- Spiritual evaluation / Taije Silverman -- Finders keepers / Jenn Shapland -- Hurricane song / Cecily Parks -- Things I know to be true / Kendra Fortmeyer -- Forgotten sound / Melissa Broder -- After reading Peter Bichsel / Lydia Davis -- Idyll / Richie Hofmann -- Fail again / David J. Unger -- I dream of horses eating cops / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza -- Midterm / Leslie Johnson -- The raptor / Charles Holdefer -- Resting place / Kate Levin -- The invitation / Barry Lopez -- Hospice / Jean Valentine -- Mistress Mickle all at sea / Elizabeth McCracken -- Laika / Sara Batkie -- The Carnation Milk Palace / Melissa Pritchard -- Cross your fingers God bless / Ron Currie Jr. -- The tradition / Jericho Brown -- Blue of the world / Douglas W. Milliken -- Dritter Klasse ohne Fensterscheiben / Steve Almond -- Cleaning the ghost room / Tatiana Forero Puerta -- Safe home / Daniel PenÌa -- Bloodlines / Lauren Slater.