December 02, 2015
Our fourth nominee for this year’s Pushcart Prize is Corey Van Landingham's poem “At a Planned Parenthood Rally, a Man Tells His Son I Want to Kill Him” (35.2). Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Corey Van Landingham At a Planned Parenthood Rally, a Man Tells His Son I Want to Kill ...
November 30, 2015
Writer's Spotlight with Brian Clifton by: Christopher Eithun Brian Clifton co-edits Bear Review. His poems can be found in: Whiskey Island, Pleiades, Southeast Review, CutBank, Portland Review, The Pinch, and other magazines. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where he was awarded the Durwood Fellowhsip in poetry. His poems, "The Small Wife"& "Sometimes My Phone ...
November 18, 2015
Our third nominee for this year’s Pushcart Prize is Brenda Peynado’s story “Carnaval” (35.1). Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Brenda Peynado Carnaval Because we married in New York, where his people had lived for the last two hundred years, we will honeymoon in the Caribbean, where mine had lived for the last two hundred years. Let's go on a cruise, ...
November 16, 2015
Our second nominee for this year's Pushcart Prize is Nick Lantz's poem "Posthumanism" (35.1). Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Nick Lantz Posthumanism In the good old days, the lords summering in the country paid peasants to beat the ponds with branches all night so the frogs would stay silent. Armstrong and Aldrin left snow angels in ...