Today we’re happy to announce our nominations for the 2010 Pushcart Prize. This was our first year to nominate work, so we’d like to say thanks to all of the poets we’ve published in 2009, and to those of you who helped us choose our nominees.

1. “Courage and Horror Stand Side by Side” by Katrina Vandenberg
2. “Enter the Dragon” by C. Dale Young
3. “Asterism (Visitor Center)” by Ali Shapiro
4. “The Liturgy of the Gym” by Kerry Krouse
5. “Argument from Design” by TR Hummer
6. “The Son of Man” by Sarah Kathryn Moore

Today’s mail brought an invitation for your humble editors to nominate poems for the 2009 Pushcart Prize — a first for us here at Linebreak. While we kick around ideas, I thought our readers might offer some additional wisdom. So I open the question: Which poem published this year on Linebreak would you nominate? Refresh your memory in the archives, if you like, and leave your answer in the comments.

This week’s guest editor is Ada Limón. We first became aware of Limón and her work at this year’s AWP conference. What a lucky find.

Limón’s first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She’s won the Chicago Literary Award and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Subtropics, Barrow Street, The New Yorker, and others. She is the Creative Director, Advertising for Travel + Leisure. Her third book of poems Sharks in the Rivers, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2010. She’s at work on her first novel as well as a book of essays.

Seth Abramson’s first book, The Suburban Ecstasies, is now available from Ghost Road Press. Order it here.

But while you’re here, reacquaint yourself with Abramson’s “Cash at Folsom” that first appeared on Linebreak.

Just a reminder: Linebreak’s tireless editors consider submissions throughout the year, so don’t be strangers this summer. Submissions should be uploaded through our new submissions manager. Our email address for submissions has been retired.

The submissions manager, by the way, is our own creation, and something we’d like to share with other literary journals. If you’d like to try it for your own publication, email me at jw@linebreak.org.

approach a microphone.

Linebreak is always looking for vocal talents to match the poetic talents we publish. If you’re interested in putting your voice down on some .mp3 or .wav virtual wax, let us know.

Fine print: You must have a way of recording your voice. Johnathon, our technical adviser/editor/all-things-to-all-people can assist you if you’re in need of technical help, though.

Ash
Linebreak Talent Scout