pizza pi press is thrilled to present our pushcart prize nominations for this year, including FOUR poems from the upcoming issue of maps for teeth!!!! (dropping in a few weeks!) we agonized over this list bc we believe so hard in all the work we publish & bc the new maps issue is [10k flames emojis] but here are the six poems we nominated for what i have been privately referring to as “pizzacarts”
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“Black Girl Magic” by Taylor Steele
“AKA TOP SHELF PERVERTS” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
“A Tale of 2 Bloodz” (After J. Cole) by Julian Randall
“ars poetica” by Sophia Holtz
“my cousin asks me about home” by JR Mahung
“The Bomba Man Talks Shit To Malcolm” by Malcolm Friend
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copies of Taylor Steele’s Dirty.Mouth.Kiss will be shipping any day now & you can order it, along with Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s RUDE GIRL IS LONELY GIRL, on our website! as for the other 4 poems, watch this space for maps for teeth winter 2016!!
xoxo
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