Pushcart Prize XLVIII : best of the small presses 2024 / edited by Bill Henderson with the Puschart Prize editors.

Includes index.

Includes index.

Sunny talks / Lydia Conklin -- Tender / Sophie Klahr -- The others spoke / Tim Shepard -- Grammar lesson, Spring 2022 / Hayden Saunier -- Backsiders / Kathryn Scanlan -- Pee stands for prejudice / Zorina Exie Frey -- The future is a click away / Allegra Hyde -- The dishwashing women / Tryphena L. Yeboah -- All over town / Doug Anderson -- Treasure island alley / Da-Lin -- Ballad that ends with bitch / Diane Seuss -- The restaurant, the concert, the bar, the bed, the petit ďjeuner / Frederic Tuten -- Two people / James Longenbach -- What if Putin laughed / Steve Stern -- A potato on the table / Mary Ruefle -- Conversations / Rae Armantrout -- Dreamers awaken / Scott Spencer -- Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you have a nice day / Hedgie Choi -- Wanting only to be heard / Jack Driscoll -- Making sausage in the time of revolution / Claudia Serea -- Goat / Mag Gabbert -- La boḧme / Clifford Thompson -- The presence of order / Yona Harvey -- Fresh accusations / Molly Brodak -- The Ba'al Shem's daughter / Glenn Gitomer -- Having lost the keys to the world where everyone sits / Kateryna Kalytko -- The locksmith / Grey Wolfe Lajoie -- Chemo becomes me / Lily Jarman-Reisch -- Everychild / Alix Christie -- Lake Qarun, Jan. 19, '22 / Sara Elkamel -- Travel agency / Krystyna Dabrowska -- Leena / Triin Paja -- Winter flame / Euǧnio de Andrade -- Two breaths / Christina Rivera Cogswell -- It is once again the season of corn / Onyekachi Iloh -- The magician's assistant / Kelsey Bryan-Zwick -- Tomorrows / Lakesha Carr -- Thank you for the tulips / Lisa Bellamy -- Memorials / Tyler Sones -- Dawn 2040 / Torie Graham -- Fight week / Laura Van Den Berg -- Nomad palindrome / Kai Carlson-Wee -- Jorie, Jr. / Michael Czyzniejewski -- The emperor concerto / Julie Hecht -- Self portrait as Mary Magdalene in the style of Gentileschi / Kameryn Alexa Carter -- The dropper / Matthew Neill Null -- A most generous offer / Joy Guo -- The blob / Molly Gallentine -- Marmalade / Fred D'Aguiar -- Toward a unified theory / Wayne Miller -- Butterfly / Peter Kessler -- Dear damage / Ashley Marie Farmer -- The real India / A.J. Bermudez -- Tarry / G.C. Waldrep -- Reading Celan in Dearborn Michigan / Hajjar Baban -- Where I am white / Andy Chen -- Four more stories / Peter Orner -- A place I didn't try to die in Los Angeles / Jenny Catlin -- The old faith / Rev. Rob McCall -- Dreaming of water with tiger salamanders / Sam Keck Scott -- Blue / Erin Wilson -- The almost bridge / Geffrey Davis -- Two halves of the skull of John the Baptist / Jeffrey Thomson -- Black land matters : Climate solutions in Black agrarianism / Leah Penniman.

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America--including highest honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry, and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses.