Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Cartagena / Nam Le -- Those who clean after / Charles Simic -- Hyacinthe and the bear / Paul Zimmer -- War lullaby / Meghan O'Rourke -- Goats / Rick Bass -- Man at the MOMA / Laure-Anne Bosselaar -- Sweethearts of the rodeo / Lydia Peelle -- Shelling the pecans / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Children of Cain / Jeff P. Jones -- Sloan-Kettering / Lynn Shapiro -- Lucky Chow Fun / Lauren Groff -- Gulf music / Robert Pinsky -- Confession for Raymond Good Bird / Melanie Rae Thon -- Waves / Grace Schulman -- Juice / Paul Allen -- Bon voyage / Tony Hoagland -- Nowhere / Joyce Carol Oates -- Note to a Pine Ridge girl who can no longer read / Adrian C. Louis -- The dinner party / Galway Kinnell -- The best jeweler / Clancy Martin -- Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf / Rebecca Solnit -- We started home, my son and I / James Harms -- Departure / Andrew Porter -- Soutine: a show of still lifes / Edward Hirsch -- 18 1/2 / Robert Olen Butler -- Skinny-dipping with Pat Nixon / David Kirby -- August/No rain / Deborah Keenan -- The dead fiish museum / Charles D'Ambrosio -- What for / Gerald Stern -- A genius for grief: memories of Saul Bellow / Herbert Gold -- Diacritical remarks / G.C. Waldrep -- Himmelen / Heidi Shayla -- On hearing a recording of the voice of Walt Whitman / John Bradley -- Shepherdess / Dan Chaon -- To the sea at Cadiz / Philip Levine -- Overwintering in Fairbanks / Erica Keiko Iseri -- Models of passion and pain / Eleanor Lerman -- Black olives / Michael Waters -- The bridge / Tiphanie Yanique -- The method / Marvin Bell -- Fine distinctions / Barbara Hurd -- Seven Marys / Li-Young Lee -- Unassigned territory / Stephanie Powell Watts -- Flickers of light become the movement of thousands / Greta Wrolstad -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- Bicameral / Linda Gregerson -- Lotto / Anna Solomon -- Rear view mirror / Joan Murray -- The Book of Wilson / Andrew Rice -- The bunny gives us a lesson in eternity / Mary Ruefle -- Mulatto / Roxane Beth Johnson -- Pampkin's lament / Peter Orner -- Growing wings / Robert Bly -- Mercy / Pinckney Benedict -- Stick figure / Gary Short -- The subculture of the wrongly accused / Thylias Moss -- The dome / Steven Millhauser -- Back to the country with Pulitzer / Liam Rector -- Bear story / Sage Marsters -- Power point (I) / Khaled Mattawa -- Blessing the new moon / A.P. Miller -- The way pilots walk / Patricia Smith -- Breaker / Randy F. Nelson -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- Contributing Small Presses -- The Pushcart Prize fellowships -- Contributors' notes -- Index.
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