The Pushcart prize, III: best of the small presses

Introduction : about Pushcart Prize, III

Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Deer dance/for your return / Leslie Marmon Silko

Moral fiction / John Gardner

The survivors / t Dan Masterson

Bons / Beth Tashery Shannon

Moral cake / Don Hendrie Jr.

A sacrifice of dogs / William Sprunt

The Wu general writes from far away / Christopher Howell

Getting freedom high / Wesley Brown

The waltz / Vicente Aleixandre

West Virginia sleep song / Ruthellen Quillen

from A journey through the land of Israel / Pinchas Sadeh

Utah died for your sins / Max Zimmer

To dance / Mary Peterson

Monsterfest / H. Bustos Domecq

There is a dream dreaming us / Norman Dubie

The breaker / Naomi Clark

The dream of mourning / Louise Glück

Vesuvius at home : the power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich

The United States / Robley Wilson, Jr.

The other face of bread / Workers University

Letter for a daughter / Lorrie Goldensohn

"Talk to me baby" / Michael Dennis Browne

Meeting Coot / William Pitt Root

Horst Wessel / C.W. Gusewelle

Hey, is anyone listening? / Stephen Minot

Everyone knows whom the saved envy / James Galvin

Sweeney astray / Seamus Heaney

David / David McCann

Parting shot / Walter Abish

Snake / Anne Herbert

"All dressed up but no place to go" : the black writer and his audience during the Harlem Renaissance / Charles Scruggs

While the record plays / Gyula Illyés

How the hen sold her eggs to the stingy priest / Nancy Willard

The angel and the mermaid / Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

Koyukon riddle-poems / Richard Dauenhauer

Waste of timelessness / Anäis Nin

Wolfbane fane / George Payerle

Lowell's graveyard / Robert Haas

Conversation by the body's light / Jane Cooper

Chinatown sonata / Yuki Hartman

Some recognition of the joshua lizard / Robert Burlingame

The fat girl / Andre Dubus

"Armed for war" : notes on the antithetical criticism of Harold Bloom / Alvin Rosenfeld

Poor God / Carolyn Cassady

A puddle / Larry Eigner

What light there is / Meekel McBride

Making a name for myself / Joyce Peseroff

Even after a machine is dismantled, it continues to operate, with or without purpose / Ascher/Straus Collective

Stepping back / Kathleen Collins

Bathroom walls / Maura Stanton

A comfort spell / Maxine Silverman

Embarkment / Hugh Seidman

Whores / James Crumley

Two strange stories / Robert Walser

Mothers / Lydia Davis

Doing good / John Balaban

Turtle / John Pilcrow

The crow is mischief / Laura Jensen

My mother's list of names / Bill Knott

The tearing of the skin / Yvonne

The essential Ellison : interview with Ralph Ellison / Steven Cannon, Ishmael Reed, and Quincy Troupe

Carlton Fisk is my ideal / Bernadette Mayer

Untitled / Loris Essary

My mother's novel / Marge Piercy

The man from Mars / Margaret Atwood

Key Largo / Bruce Andrews

The life that disappeared / Roman Vishniac

The iron table / Jane Bowles

Contributors notes

Outstanding writers

Outstanding small presses.