Pushcart nominations!
Congrats and good luck to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! Before It Gets Cold, by Victor McConnell The Scarf, by Renée M. Schell Plymouth Fury, by Richard Hague Watch, by Jennifer Dupree That’s the boy who shot his brother on Christmas Day, by B. Fulton Jennes Goddess of Bees, by…
Slippery Elm Prize Winner Announced in Poetry
Congratulations to Renée M. Schell for her poem “The Scarf,” chosen by this year’s judge Timothy Geiger! Tim says, “The complexity of “The Scarf,” with its confession and subtle remorse, and its time-shift memory drawing back to that harrowing moment of maternal concern–-concluding in the beautiful image of the scarf’s…
Announcing 2025 Poetry Finalists!
Here are our Finalists in the 2025 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest: “If Music Is the Sound Between” by Svetlana Litvinchuk “Plymouth Fury” by Richard Hague “The Call of the Tame” by Michael Jewell “The Scarf” by Renee Schell “Cloud in 9” by Mary Buchinger “The Poet Resists His Own Instructions…