[Paul Stevens]

The Flea & The Chimaera have nominated these poems for the 2011 Pushcart anthology. Good luck to the nominees, and editorial thanks to all who submitted such excellent work to both journals.

The Chimaera

Amit Majmudar: Origami
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011.../Majmudar.html

Catherine Chandler: Glosa: Críonnacht
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011.../Chandler.html

Janet Kenny: Hushabye
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011...ems/Kenny.html

Maryann Corbett: Mayday
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011...s/Corbett.html

Philip Quinlan: At Sea
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011/Poems/Quinlan.html

Antonia Clark: The Landscape from Here
http://www.the-chimaera.com/July2011...ems/Clark.html

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The Flea

Wor(l)d by Stephen Edgar
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue19/Word.html

The Morning After The Night I Got Smashed On Cheap Port With Lewis Carroll by Salli Shepherd
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue16/TheM...rtheNight.html

Nuclear Family Bees, Barrington River by Les Murray
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue14/NuclearFamilyBees.html

Way Station by Peter Bloxsom
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue14/WayStation.html

The Persistence of Desire by Anna Evans
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue12/Pers...eofDesire.html

The Only Road There Is by Ann Drysdale
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue20/TheOnlyRoadThereIs.html

[Catherine Chandler]

Paul,

Thank you for believing in this poem, for the nomination, and for all you do for poets and poetry.

Best wishes for all the nominees!

Cathy

Editing in to thank Peter as well!

[Janice D. Soderling]

A good line-up. Good luck to all of you, and to you too, Paul.

[Maryann Corbett]

Thanks again, Paul, and Peter too.

[Roger Slater]

Possibly it's just my own connection, but none of the links are working for me, Paul.

At any rate, congratulations to the nominees, whom I know you picked out of a very strong field of contenders that you had the luxury of choosing from.

[Paul Stevens]

Roger, thanks for pointing out the non-responding links. Somewhere in the message's metamorphoses the links picked up some rogue code. I've cleaned them up now and they should go like the clappers. Apologies to all. You really DO have to pick up every stitch!

And Roger said something else very apropos as well: we had an amazing field of contenders to choose from. The Chimaera picks were jointly made by Peter & myself; but I alone am responsible for The Flea's. I picked the poems that for one reason or another stayed in my memory most. There were so many others that pushed and vied for a place, all of them brilliant. I had to be brutal -- but what luxury, eh? -- to be brutal with such a field of champions.

And there's more! -- Shit Creek Review's nominations will be posted soon.

Thanks, all!

[Lance Levens]

Hear! Hear! For the fine poets and editors! Congrats!

[Rick Mullin]

Congrats all. Great publications.

[Adam Elgar]

Great poets and a great magazine, Paul. Congratulations to all!

[Jean L. Kreiling]

Many congratulations to many fine poets, and to the wise editors who published and "pushed" their work!

Best,
Jean