Rust & Moth

The Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses, and Rust and Moth’s nominations are in the mail! Please enjoy these fantastic pieces from this year’s nominees.

Black paintings, by Lisa Bickmore

Magdalene, by Amy Thatcher

Abecedarian For My Grandmother’s Missing Toe, by Arielle Kaplan

20/20 Lexicon, by Michael Bazzett

Going Home, by Suzanne Langlois

Peeled Apples, by Carly Wheelehan Gelsinger

Rust & Moth’s Winter 2023 issue is live! These quiet, solstice-dark pieces rumble with buried light. Here lie bodies on fire, faerie ships, and ribs striking flint on steel.

Featuring new work from Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Suzanne Langlois, Caleb F. Stocco, Heather Qin, and many others, we’ll be publishing new poems online every week and building toward a finalized print edition this December. Join us online (and on Bluesky) as the issue unfolds!