Sacramento Poetry Center & Tule Review announce first-ever Pushcart Prize nominations

Sacramento Poetry Center Press announces first-ever Pushcart Prize nominations, selected from Fall 2012 Tule Review

Sacramento Poetry Center has a decades-long history of publishing poetry. That legacy becomes even more vital as SPC Press, the formal publishing arm of the center, announces is first-ever Pushcart Prize nominations! All six of the 2012 nominations were selected from the Fall 2012 issue of Tule Review. The nominees are, in no particular order:

“Night Dive, Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman, 1996” by Tim Tomlinson

“Ode to an Earthworm” by Moira Magneson

“Turning Seventy at a B&B at Clear Lake” by Richard Michael Levine

“Goddamn” by Laura Martin

“A Gratitude” by Ann Keniston

“Letter to Myself, to be Read at the Onset of Alzheimer’s”  by Elizabeth Langemak

Here is a little background on the prize, from its website:

“The Pushcart Prize – Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of our annual collections.

Writers who were first noticed here include: Raymond Carver, Tim O’Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, Charles Baxter, Andre Dubus, Susan Minot, Mona Simpson, John Irving, Rick Moody, and many more. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series.”

Please join SPC in honoring these writers and celebrating this next step in the history of the center!