NVR's Award Nominations

Pushcart Prize

2025

Shalmi Barman, “Souvenirs” (Summer, 2025)

A. Z. Foreman, “Arma Virumque” (Summer, 2025)

Jane Greer, “In none of her other ages” (Winter, 2025)

Rachel Hadas, “Wire and Vine” (Summer, 2025)

Shane McCrae, “James the Brother of Jesus Confronts His Heavenly Double at the Gates” (Summer, 2025)

Erica Reid, “Gyotaku” (Summer, 2025)

2024

Ned Balbo, “Millions of Monarchs” (Halloween 2024)

Carla Galdo, “Imminence” (Halloween 2024)

Katie Hartsock, “Tussive” (Summer 2024)

Amit Majmudar, “Prologue to an Unwritten Rewrite of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus” (Summer 2024)

Benjamin Myers, “The Pitcher’s Arm” (Summer 2024)

Darlene Young, “Sisters” (Summer 2024)

Best Spiritual Literature from Orison Press

2025

Luca D’Anselmi, “Relic” (Halloween, 2025)

Amit Majmudar, “The Only Holy War” (Summer, 2025)

Victoria Moul, “I.m. Andrew, October 2024” (Summer, 2025)

Leslie Williams, “The Ring” (Summer, 2025)

Ryan Wilson, “The Word Comes to Fly-Over Country” (Jane Greer Tribute, 2025)

Jeff Young, “John the Baptist of Mardi Gras” (Poets of UST Special Issue, 2025)

Best of the Net

2026

Katie Dozier, “New Year” (Winter 2026)

Caleb Hill, “My Younger Brother Doing Chores” (Winter 2026)

Richard Prins, translation of Jacob Ngumbau Julius's “Skin” (Spring 2026)

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, “Paradiso” (Summer 2025)

Alemu Tebeje and Chris Beckett, translation of Kebedech Tekleab's “At a crossroad in Addis Ababa” (Spring 2026)

Tamarah Rockwood, “Calypso Praying in the Produce Section” (Summer 2025)

2025

Alice Allan, “Bad Boys for Life” (Winter 2025)

T.O. Brandon, “The Bell Witch” (Halloween 2024)

Midge Goldberg, “Trail Markers” (Winter 2025)

Jenna Le, “Apotheosis” (Summer 2024)

Steven Searcy, “Too Easy to Remember” (Winter 2025)

Sally Thomas, “Aubade with Grackle” (Summer 2024)