Announcing Our Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2019
One of the most difficult tasks I face as editor of Ancient Paths Online is sifting through the many excellent poems published throughout...
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- Nov 19, 2019
- 1 min
RIP
As Mrs. Burns is slouching in her urn I suppose you'd say she'd like to be at peace although Joanna hasn't managed to reserve a plot....
- Nov 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Red Road
Windblown, rain-born, mothers with children, their aged parents, arm-hung, basket-carried, free pedaling, four-legged, or three-legged,...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
A Marriage in Beds
I. Single The futon’s fabric was bare; the stuffing was shot through with collapse from our sitting lap-stacked in the center. One...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
God's Language
After dinner, the adults chat. I don’t know what they discuss. Their children make demands of me— Bring seven shells down from the...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
May It Not Come Undone
Thick rainbow chard and yellow corn; We run past the market tents To where the light hangs over the river In eternal September....
- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
The Night Shift
every night we become master burpers, sooth sayers, rockers; our prayers go straight up every night we lose our breath, our pace ...
- Oct 11, 2018
- 4 min
Ancient Paths 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
Every year, hundreds of presses nominate poems, short stories, and novel excerpts for the Pushcart Prize. Pushcart Press has been judging...
- Mar 10, 2018
- 2 min
The Poetry of Paul David Atkins
Paul David Adkins writes poetry, he says, “partly to record my experiences, and partly to see how finely I can tune language to say...
- Mar 5, 2018
- 1 min
Fairytales and Dustballs
First published in Issue 9 (Fall 2002) of Ancient Paths literary magazine, "Fairtyales and Dustballs" was a 2002 Pushcart Prize nominee....
- Mar 1, 2018
- 6 min
A History Lesson
The following short story comes from the Ancient Paths archives, Issue 15. It was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009. A History...
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