Pushcart Nominations 2025

This year, null pointer press has sent the following poems as its submission to the Pushcart Prize:

• "B is for Brutus", MICHAEL CHANG
• "The Lies Overlap, Alongside the Years", BEE LB
• "The Bugs Have Gone Away", Mahaila Smith
• "Tideline", Elizabeth Wing
• "Or Not", Gregory Crosby

Thank you so much to the poets for sending me their work, and allowing me to publish it in +doc. 

Pushcart Nominations 2024

This year I'm delighted to nominate the maximum number of pieces (six) for the Pushcarts: Clifton Gachagua, January, A Sequence; Connor Ferguson, "I Want a Paper Moon"; Monty Reid, Vertebrata (Thoracic); Ros Werner Winslow, we live with blurring eyes, drinking sweet brine of sweat, spit and song—; Charlie McIlwain, CANADIAN RAINS; and Lily Herman, The April Palace.

Congratulations to Clifton, Connor, Monty, Ros, Charlie, and Lily, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work to my little longer journal.

Pushcart nominations: 2023

 I just mailed off the nominations package last night, so I'm very pleased to announce that this year's nominees are:

- Jake Byrne, "No. 21 The World" (+doc.4)

- Jérôme Melançon, "On Seeing Oneself With Others" (+doc.4)

- Frances Boyle, "Winter's Death" (+doc.5)

- Sarah Peecher, "Emerging From a Silver Foil Cocoon After the Conflagration" (+doc.5)

Congratulations to all the poets!

Pushcart nominations, 2022

One of the things I really enjoy about running a small press is being able to send prize nominations off. null pointer press is print-based (because I like print), so Best of the Net is out, but I get to nominate work for the Pushcart Prize and so I definitely do.

This year I'm pleased to announce I'm nominating:

- Notes on Feral Gods, by Grant Wilkins (+doc.2)

- BLOOMS, PAINS, STRATEGIES, by Amanda Earl (+doc.2)

- "John Charley - Stacking Hay - Successful Indian Farmer", by Robert Hogg (+doc.3)

- Hibernia Mon Amour, by ryan fitzpatrick (+doc.3)

Pushcart Nominations

When I solicited poems for Odd Poems 2021, I thought it was going to be a one-off thing. Getting back to making things (physical things), a fun project in the midst of the pandemic, etc. And then there was all kinds of interest, and rob mclennan asked me what my press was called, and I had to think of something, and after some panicking and Googling, I came up with a name, and now I have a press? And a couple of items released, more planned, and even more ideas? Which was I think part of his plan all along.

Having put out not just Odd Poems but having started +doc (a biannual long poems journal), and starting to actually think in terms of having a small press, I wanted to submit Pushcart nominations, and I have. These are:

• A Tinderbox of Silence, by Adedayo Agarau
• the third season, by melanie brannagan frederiksen
• To Tim Dlugos (Cento), by Eduardo C. Corral
• What they write in the snow, by rob mclennan
• Best Days Calendar, by Tiffany Morris
• Time As The Lightning Bolt We Don't Receive Whole, by Tom Snarsky

I really want to thank all the poets who have let me publish their work, and everyone who sent work for consideration. It has been an absolute pleasure working with you, and I look forward to many more projects in the coming years.