A Pushcart Prize Special Mention

We’re celebrating another honor for our decorated author Hannah Lee Jones.



Hannah Lee Jones
’s poem “Longing Town,” from her debut collection When I Was the Wind (2022), has received a coveted Special Mention in the latest Pushcart Prize anthology (2024).

Click above to listen to her read the poem—and check out the book’s full details for more audio clips and a list of other accolades that Hannah and her book have earned this year.

And here are the press’s Pushcart Prize nominations from this season and last:

Diana Whitney, from Dark Beds:

• “Kindergarten Studies the Human Heart”
• “Dark Beds”
• “The Long Goodbye”

Mariella Saavedra Carquin, from Maps You Can’t Make:

• “I Swear There Was a River”
• “We Run in Burning Sands”
• “Wait”

Hila Ratzabi, from There Are Still Woods:

• “How to Pray While the World Burns”
• “Crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge the Day Before the End of the World”
• “Visitation”

Hannah Lee Jones, from When I Was the Wind:

• “Mortal Remains”
• “Longing Town” 
• “Year of the Jackrabbit”

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