A Pushcart Prize Special Mention

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


Longing Town
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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