Pushcart Prize Nominations

I am thoroughly delighted to announce that my friend Tony Leuzzi, grad school classmate & poet ~ and featured plog poet (March 2009 post, Tony's Trio of Fibonacci Poems), is among this year's Pushcart Prize nominees for "from east to west:  bicoastal verse."  And the nominees are: Black Crow ~Dave Morrison, fall '09 Letters and Ladders ~Lynne Shapiro, fall '09 She gone/She gone 2 ~Peter Cicariello, summer '09 The Untangled Vine Becomes: 11 Homophonic Translations from the Japanese ~ Tony Leuzzi, summer '09 Before the Iron Age~Michael Macklin, spring '09 Why I Have A Crush On You, UPS Man~Alice Persons, winter '08/'09 Read / revisit the the nominated poems at http://fromeasttowestbv.com/pushcart09.html Announcement from PJ Nights ~ cross-posted from The (Buffalo) Poetics List. Posting guidelines & sub/unsub info Ed Note: this plog (aka poetry blog) invites, welcomes, encourages, vigorously exhorts readers and especially P&W Picnickers to send notice of prizes, nominations, readings, publications and so forth