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Blue Heron Review Pushcart Prize Nominations

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Congratulations to all of our poets nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year! It is always very difficult to choose just 6 poems. I am so proud of the very fine work published in every single issue of Blue Heron Review! I hope you enjoy browsing our 2 issues from 2025, to read all of the beautiful, thoughtful selections.

—Cristina M. R. Norcross
Editor, Blue Heron Review

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From BHR Issue 19 / Spring 2025
(*To read the selections below, please visit the BHR Issue 19 page. Simply scroll down to find the work of each author within the issue)

Helen Bournas-Ney / “A Prayer for My Granddaughter”
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch / “When Souls Find Comfort: Ode to a Lake”
Faith Paulsen / “I Imagine Hildegard von Bingen Finds an Egg”

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From BHR Issue 20 / Fall 2025
(*To read the selections below, please visit the BHR Issue 20 page. Simply scroll down to find the work of each author within the issue.)

Dianna MacKinnon Henning / “Scent of Solitude”
Alison Hurwitz / “To the Man Playing Bach for a Pair of Ducks”
Sarah Sadie / “The Only Argument with Time That Wins”

Best of the Net Nominations / Blue Heron Review

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It is an honor to curate and bring you a wonderful selection of thoughtful, meditative poetry in Blue Heron Review. I am proud of each and every one of our talented contributors. I wish I could have nominated more than 6 authors for the Best of the Net awards. Please join me in celebrating the work of these fine writers. The following poets nominated appear in either BHR Issue 13 Fall 2021 / or BHR Issue 14 Spring 2022.

Visit the BHR 13 and BHR 14 pages of this site to read all of these beautiful poems. Simply scroll down to find the work of each author within the issue.

Nominations from BHR Issue 13 Fall 2021

Donna H DiCello / “Is the World Too Full to Talk About?”
Jackie Langetieg / “I Never Knew”

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Nominations from BHR Issue 14 Spring 2022

Jessica Lee McMillan / “Transmission of Joy”
Elisabeth Harrahy / “Goodbye, Professor”
Jess L Parker / “Nesting”
Cheryl Byler Keeler / “Sixty-two”

Thank you for supporting our authors. We value our Blue Heron readers!

Cristina M. R. Norcross, Founding Editor
Blue Heron Review