Pushcart prize XXXII, 2008: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Cartagena / Nam Le

Those who clean after / Charles Simic

Hyacinthe and the bear / Paul Zimmer

War lullaby / Meghan O'Rourke

Goats /

Rick Bass

Man at the MOMA / Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Sweethearts of the rodeo / Lydia Peelle

Shelling the pecans / Lorna Dee Cervantes

Children of Cain / Jeff P. Jones

Sloan-Kettering / Lyn Shapiro

Lucky Chow Fun / Lauren Groff

Gulf music / Robert Pinsky

Confession for Raymond Good Bird / Melanie Rae Thon

Waves / Grace Schulman

Juice / Paul Allen

Bon voyage / Tony Hoaglund

Nowhere / Joyce Carol Oates

Note to a Pine Ridge girl who can no longer read / Adrian C. Louis

The dinner party / Galway Kinnell

The best jeweler / Clancy Martin

Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf / Rebecca Solnit

We started home, my son and I / James Harms

Departure / Andrew Porter

Soutine: a show of still lifes / Edward Hirsch

18 1/2 / Robert Olen Butler

Skinny-dipping with Pat Nixon / David Kirby

August/No rain / Deborah Keenan

The dead fiish museum / Charles D'Ambrosio

What for / Gerald Stern

A genius for grief: memories of Saul Bellow / Herbert Gold

Diacritical remarks / G. C. Waldrep

Himmelen / Heidi Shayla

On hearing a recording of the voice of Walt Whitman / John Bradley

Shepherdess / Dan Chaon

To the sea at Cadiz / Philip Levine

Overwintering in Fairbanks / Erica Keiko Iseri

Models of passion and pain / Eleanor Lerman

Black olives / Michael Waters

The bridge / Tiphanie Yanique

The method / Marvin Bell

Fine distinctions / Barbara Hurd

Seven Marys / Li-Young Lee

Unassigned territory / Stephanie Powell Watts

Flickers of light become the movement of thousands / Greta Wrolstad

Fathead's hard times / W. S. Di Piero

Bicameral / Linda Gregerson

Lotto / Anna Solomon

Rear view mirror / Joan Murray

The Book of Wilson / Andrew Rice

The bunny gives us a lesson in eternity / Mary Ruefle

Mulatto / Roxane Beth Johnson

Pampkin's lament / Peter Orner

Growing wings / Robert Bly

Mercy / Pinckney Benedict

Stick figure / Gary Short

The subculture of the wrongly accused / Thylias Moss

The dome / Steven Millhauser

Back to the country with Pulitzer / Liam Rector

Bear story / Sage Marsters

Power point (I) / Khaled Mattawa

Blessing the New Moon / A. P. Miller

The way pilots walk / Patricia Smith

Breaker / Randy F. Nelson.