My editor at Blue Light Press, publisher of my new poetry collection Every Glittering Chimera, informed me this week that my poem "Becoming" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!
The Pushcart Prize, the venerable literary prize, celebrates the best poetry, fiction, and essays published by literary journals and small presses. Editors from these venues nominate what they think is the best out of what they have published. What an honor to be included!
My poem "Becoming" originally appeared the issue 3 of Parentheses: International Journal of Literary Art, alongside my paintings Inle Lake Montage and Water of Life. The poem is also included in “The Chimera's Kylix,” the meditative and philosophic final section of my book Every Glittering Chimera.
BECOMING
Snowy owl will be your disguise
when you escape this cage.
You will be grateful you were once alive
though many died and you grew solitary.
A torn black band tied to your wing
kept you from flight. But now,
it’s time to leave your perch.
...Read the full poem here.
