The Pushcart Prize XLVII : best of the small presses 2023 / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Ambivalence / Victoria Lancelotta -- Talking to the hedgerows about money / Jeb Loy Nichols -- Open water / Ada Limón -- The glacier / Idra Novey -- Standing in the forest of being alive / Katie Farris -- The children are fragile / Jen Silverman -- Dear friends / Mary Ruefle -- Mantis / Gina Chung -- The Cloud Lake unicorn / Karen Russell -- 1940 / D. Nurkse -- Fire and ice / Debra Gwartney -- The observable world / Marcel Fuentes -- Both sissies / Le Van D. Hawkins -- Loquats / Sally Wen Mao -- The toll / Daniel Mason -- Bad dog / Molly Giles -- Sweet potato / Janice N. Harrington -- The thermopolium / Dorianne Laux -- Against mastery / Brionne Janae -- How do you roll / Kim Chinquee -- The kiss / Kate Osana Simonian -- Father Weaver / Jamaica Baldwin -- Utter, Earth / Isaac Yuen -- Colonial conditions / Brandon Taylor -- Love & the memory of it / Jay Hopler -- A brief history of the war / Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer -- Back / Banzelman Guret -- Tikkun Olam Ted / Nicole Graev Lipson -- During the pandemic I listen to the July 26th 1965, Juan Les Pins recording of "A Love Supreme" / Ellen Bass -- Unknown / Bennett Sims -- Bock rottom / Sam Herschel Wein -- Fire / Thaisa Frank -- Million million / Michelle Boisseau -- If your dreams don't scare you / Joni Tevis -- Screensaver / Robert Cording -- Half spent / Alice McDermott -- White spaces / Lisa Low -- The uncertainty principle / Danielle Cadena Deulen -- Dear Coroner, how could you know / Julia Paul -- Slut days / Sanam Mahloudji -- Pearl Ghazal / Leila Chatti -- Fireflies / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- I see a silence / Ilya Kaminsky -- Remembrance poppy / Katrina Vandenberg -- To cigarettes / Nancy Connors -- Skinfolk / Elaine Hsieh Chou -- A child of North America / Roger Reeves -- Autobiography via forgetting / Marianne Chan -- When the body says no but you can't stop swallowing / Steven Espada Dawson -- Too attached / Whitney Lee -- If you would let me / Maggie Dietz -- Wishbone / Joseph Sigurdson -- The desperate place / Gail Godwin -- The Union Waltz / Doug Crandell -- The Land of Uz / Aleyna Rentz -- Confession / Elizabeth Robinson -- Shakespeare doesn't care / Rita Dove -- Satyr's flute / Shangyan Fang -- There I almost am: on envy and twinship / Jean Garnett -- Poets / Elizabeth Tallent -- Mother fuckers talking shit about American sonnets / Sam Cha -- Maly, Maly, Maly / Anthony Veasna So -- An essay on war / Jennifer Chang -- To sharks / Stephen Fishbach -- Postcards to M. / Allison Benis White -- Things I didn't do with this body & things I did / Amanda Gunn -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976.

In last year's Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, "the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe." As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.)--Amazon.