Rust & Moth

The Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses, and Rust and Moth’s nominations left for Wainscott, NY by the waxing light of last month’s moon. Please enjoy these fantastic pieces from 2024!

Paper Birch, by Jennifer K. Sweeney
Cabbage White Butterfly, by Nathan Manley
A Mother, by Sam Szanto
Meditation on a Morning Dose, by Ken Hines
pomegranates, by Katerina Matta
Elegy, by Dilys Wyndham Thomas

The Rust & Moth Winter 2024 issue is now available in print! These are poems of heavy place, of creeks, haunted rivers, hard crossings, and houses just over the hill. Treat these pages as you would a map upon waking; perhaps it’s time we got to know this place for what it is, and not what it could have been.

With new poetry from Jared Beloff, Alison Hurwitz, Joshua Coben, S.M. Badawi, Mike Bove, Will Summay, Jennifer L Freed, Sarah Carleton, Finlay Worrallo, Debmalya Bandyopadhyay, Wren Donovan, Anushka Sen, T. De Los Reyes, Benjamin Patterson, Karen G. Berry, J. Greenberg, Robin Arble, Erik Kennedy, Ava O’Connor, Melody Wilson, Joanne Epp, Peter Leight, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Ken Hines, Suzanne Langlois, David Elliot Eisenstat, Julie Choffel, Matthew King, Geraldine Connolly, and Bex Hainsworth.

And to all our readers, if you tire of old and decrepit digital haunts: come find us at our homestead on Bluesky!