We’re delighted to announce this year’s nominations for The Pushcart Prize.
ONE ART’s 2022 Pushcart Prize nominations:
Jane Zwart – 13
Ona Gritz – Office Visit
Anne Graue – Kansas Ode
Laurie Kuntz – Anniversary, Again
Hannah Schoettmer – Things we Remove
Carla Sarett – post abortion interview
Congratulations to our wonderful poets!
post abortion interview
no there wasn’t
love
or it got lost
no I wasn’t
drunk
but I forgot
what happens to women’s
bodies
on unimportant nights
no there wasn’t much
pain
or it didn’t last
no there wasn’t
shame
except I had
to ask a man for
money
& I counted it
*
Carla Sarett is a poet and fiction writer based in San Francisco. She Has Visions, her debut poetry collection, will be published in Fall 2022 (Main Street Rag), and her novel, A Closet Feminist (Unsolicited) appeared earlier this year.
They Made Wars
We drank sweet Turkish coffee
and talked long into the night
of mothers who lost children in cities,
who locked them out of houses in thick rain,
who foresaw snow on a warm spring day,
how snow fell after their words.
By dawn, we forgot which stories
we had told and which we had forgotten
in the eagerness of our first revelations.
By starlight, we whispered our terrors:
Giant mothers outgrew houses.
They made wars without anyone noticing.
We never mentioned fathers.
Those pale and harried men.
*
no one says it
Deirdre’s sending
love w/ exclamation points
love! love! love!
John texts it (love)
no point wanting
a love letter she knows
that’s not the #love
they’re sending
& that song
love love love
all you need is
not the #love
she needs
*
Carla Sarett’s recent poem appear or are forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, The Virginia Normal, San Pedro River Review, The Remington Review, Sylvia, Words and Whispers and elsewhere. Her novella, The Looking Glass, will be published in October (Propertius); and A Closet Feminist, a full-length novel, will appear in 2022 (Unsolicited Press.) Carla lives in San Francisco.
You know, life
You know the story.
A woman’s seeking,
you know,
And she meets,
you know,
And he’s just what she,
you know.
And everything seems fine until,
marriage,
well, you know.
Her mother,
His mother,
And couldn’t he,
And couldn’t she,
And really, who could with…
And no money.
And children, oh, the children,
And maybe if he,
And maybe if she,
But no one expected,
well, you know.
how suddenly
how suddenly
padded shoulders vanished,
bodies unbranded were
never seen except
in old movies
hats of miraculous shapes,
black veils, gloves of lemon yellow
died along with her old face,
no longer hers but
a sadder woman’s
her to do-list
had nothing to do
with anything
anyone ever
wanted to do
Carla Sarett’s recent appears or is forthcoming in Hobart, Prole, Third Wednesday and elsewhere; and her essays have been nominated for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize. Her novel, A Closet Feminist, will be published in 2022 (Unsolicited Press.). Carla has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in San Francisco.
