The Pushcart prize XXX, 2006: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Presently in ruins / Gregory Blake Smith

The third thing / Donald Hall

Bright world / Carl Phillips

Hadrian's wall / Jim Shepard

Promenade / Joshua Mehigan

Joyas voladoras / Brian Doyle

Her first elk / Rick Bass

Secret names / David Mamet

Walker Evans is a spy on the Lexington Avenue local / Valerie Sayers

Songs from the black chair / Charles Barber

The night Richard Pryor met mudbone /

A. Van Jordan

My unopened life / Tess Gallagher

Boyfriends / Cynthia Weiner

Child, dead, in the rose garden / E. L. Doctorow

Best and only / Andrew Feld

End of the line / Aimee Bender

Portrait of the artist as an old man / Edward Hirsch

After Herodotus / Tom Sleigh

Wild plums in blossom / Ted Kooser

Ackerman in Eden / Donald Hays

Christmas 1910 / Robert Olen Butler

The death of Mayakovsky / Philip Levine

Proverbs / Angie Estes

Notes on uranium weapons and kitsch / George Gessert

Hunters / John Fulton

Rose of Sharon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Shooting Kinesha / Daisy Fried

Sabor a Mi / Alex Mindt

Comfort / Ann Hood

The famous writers school : lessons from Faulkner's house / Cynthia Shearer

You people / Nance Van Winckel

Pearlie tells what happened at school / Diane Gilliam Fisher

Sad coincidence in the confessional mode with a borrowed movie trope / Lucia Perillo

Heavenly creatures: for wandering children and their deliquent mother / Melanie Rae Thon

The mechanics / Paul Zimmer

Luciferin / Dean Young

American speaking / David Rivard

The widow joy / Rosellen Brown

D/altered / James McKean

Thorns, thistles / Daniel Anderson

Mediterranean / Rosanna Warren

Jesus wept / R. T. Smith

Skin teeth / Neisha Tweed

On the reality of the symbol / Geoffrey Hill

Benediction: on being Boswell's Boswell / David Gessner

The feeder / Ellen Bryant Voigt

Elevens / Stanley Plumly

Samantha / Robert Boyers

The darkness together / Steve Almond

It is the nature of the wing / Frank Gaspar

A haze on the hills / Pamela Stewart

Chest x-ray / Amy Bartlett

Manhattans / Frederick Busch

Our spring catalog / Jack Pendarvis

DNA / Linda Bierds

Picture / Atsuro Riley

Glaciology / Lia Purpura

Glose / Marilyn Hacker

Pursuit of the yellow house / Robin Behn

The brothers / Lysley Tenorio

The invention of streetlights / Cole Swensen.