Pushcart Prize / Foley Contest – Poetry News Roundup May 16th

This week on My Poetic Side, we look at the winner of the Pushcart Prize, and we also have news about the 2025 Foley Poetry Contest Prestigious Pushcart Prize Awarded to Professor Heather Treseler Worcester State professor Heather Treseler won the Pushcart Prize for her poem “Purpura”. The poem, which is just 28 lines long, is described as completely immersive and shows the reader a complex mother-daughter relationship. The first two lines of the poem "When ...
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