Pushcart Nomination Announcement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Him

 

I want to believe in the father.

Because that was some kind of love, alien,

emerging from the Best Buy.

How he steers his son

right up to me, makes him look

at my face. As if to say, this

is the world–blonde, soft–this is danger. […]