Pushcart Nominees
Each year the CQ editors nominate especially fine poems
from our published CQ issues for the Pushcart Prize.
Congratulations to our 2017 Pushcart nominees:
I Left My Front Door Open Last Night by Mike Faran
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 1
Marine Layer by AE Hines
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 1
Birthday in October by Nicola Waldron
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 2
Fool's Gold by Brian Kirven
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 2
It May Be by Mike Dillon
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 3
Devoted Strangers by A. Dearborn Goldsmith
from CQ Vol. 43, No. 3
We present the six poems in the pages below.