Continuum Fellow, Jim Allman, was recently announced as a Pushcart Nominee by the Los Angeles Review for his poem published in Issue 10, titled “Corpus Delicti”. This is Jim’s second nomination for the prestigious Pushcart.
The Pushcart Prize is the “best of the small presses” and includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Each small press, which includes most literary journals, nominates up to 6 pieces to be considered for the Pushcart’s annual anthology. Nominations are submitted by December, and winners are announced in June of the following year.
The six nominations are generally considered by the editorial staff of each journal to represent the best of the journal’s published material over the past calendar year. The poetry editor at LAR, Tanya Chernov, had this to say about Jim’s work:
Though LAR does not often publish the more experimental forms of poetry, we were enchanted by James Allman’s “Corpus Delicti” and the notably sharp, tight-fitting corners of both the poems’ lines and the author’s wit. Form, thought and rhythm come together to make a strikingly vivid and at times even chaotic masterpiece. The combination of raw, visercal details and intellectual accuracy makes this poem fodder for much haunting thought long after the page has turned. Not for the lighthearted and not for the novice, “Corpus Delicti” embodies exactly what contemporary poetry should be: powerful, well-crafted, and smart.
The other LAR nominees are identified on their blog which can be seen here: LAR 2011 Pushcart Nominations. You can, also, read the nominated work, “Corpus Delicti”, at Jim’s blog: DiatribalArts.
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