Pushcart Prize XLVI, 2022 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Includes index.

Suffering in motion / McKenna Marsden -- Every poem is my most Asian poem / Chen Chen -- Remembering the alchemists / Richard Hoffman -- Reality TV / Michael Kardos -- Revenge / B.H. Fairchild -- Let's play dead / Sean Ahmad -- To autumn / Carl Phillips -- Biology / Kevin Wilson -- Leave no trace / Daniel Orozco -- The holy spirit of the moon / Red Hawk -- Housekeeping / Karin Lin-Greenberg -- The loss of heaven / Dantiel W. Moniz -- The best-ever doom metal band / Lara Markstein -- False teeth / Tom Sleigh -- Monarch / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Our vices / Dominica Phetteplace -- My first blood / Rebecca Cadenhead -- Father's belt / Kurt Luchs -- The real thing / Olivia Clare -- The creatures of the world have not been chastened / Lia Purpura -- Crime against grief : myth of an age / Xiao Xiao -- What I'll miss / Dennis Held -- O despot! My despot! / Patrick Dacey -- A small needful fact / Ross Gay -- Trezzo / Seth Fried -- Old women taking about death / Jennifer L. Knox -- Midnight is a beautiful curse / Dorianne Laux -- Night cows / Jennifer Bowen Hicks -- In a time of peace / Ilya Kaminsky -- Recon/men / Devon Halliday -- Young Americans / Jabari Asim -- Image / Louise Glück -- Breathing exercise / Raven Leilani -- Sleepers / Arthur Sze -- Gutted / Cathryn Klusmeier -- Contender / Tracii Brimhall -- Mother won't buy polypropylene / Patricia Cleary Miler -- Suffer me to pass / Debra Gwartney -- Ceremony / Margaret Ross -- The kaleshion / Jerald Walker -- Pluto be orbit uncommon / Quintin Collins -- Elenin / Stephen Mortland -- Trans is against nostalgia / Taylor Johnson -- Finland / Ron Riekki -- Ruthless / Emily Lee Luan -- A little like God / Molly McCloskey -- On Agate Beach / Holly Singlehurst -- Letter from Brooklyn / D. Nurkse -- Mark on the cross / Maria Black -- Seven flowers / Triin Paja -- Muslim with dog / Threa Almontaser -- Baikal / Lindsay Starck -- Dedicated / Kathy Fagan -- Aftermath / Holly Iglesias -- Open house / Jeremiah Moss -- The crying room / Lucas Southworth -- The description I carry in my wallet in case Eve goes missing and I go mute / Bob Hicok -- A very great abyss / Pam Durban -- Black box / Sandra Lim -- A tale of two trolls / Marcus Spiegel -- A small blip on an eternal timeline / Ifeoma Sesiana Amobi -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Woman, Chino CA / Joyce Carol Oates -- Because / Grace Schulman -- Lakewood / Charles Baxter -- The God phone / Leora Smith.

The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from dozens of small presses, as selected from 900 presses worldwide by more than 200 distinguished staff contributing editors.