2014 Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Human snowball / Davy Rothbart

Enlightenment / Natasha Trethewey

Corn maze / Pam Houston

Ming / Jill McDonough

A full-service shelter / Amy Hempel

During a break from feeling / Mary Ruefle

Thirst / Taymiya R. Zaman

Blues in five/four, the violence in Chicago / Afaa Michael Weaver

What happens in hell / Charles Baxter

After suicide / Matt Rasmussen

Teen culture / Elizabeth Ellen

Last call / Saeed Jones

The healing power of the western oystercatcher / Howard Norman

Cranes, mafiosos and a Polaroid camera / Natalie Diaz

God of ducks / Tina Louise Blevins

The ultrasound / David Hornibrook

Lorry raja / Madhuri Vijay

Origin / Sarah Lindsay

The dead / Stephen Dixon

From That once were beautiful children / Claudia Rankine

Touch / Steve Adams

Late oracle sonnet / David St. John

Wings / Lorrie Moore

Self-portrait with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong

Reliquaries / Paul Zimmer

Listening to Virginia / Jeffrey Harrison

Iconography / Ays̜e Papatya Bucak

Tallahatchie / Susan B.A. Somers-Willett

Father of disorder / Jessica Wilbanks

Your body down in gold / Carl Phillips

The piece need not be built / Andrew Zolot

The monster: classifications and explanations / Susan Slaviero

Don't let them catch you / Molly Patterson

The separaton/retention / Kwame Dawes

Writing & publishing a memoir: what the hell have I done? / Andre Dubus III

A summer garden / Louise Glück

Donate! / Jack Livings

Things to think about / Scott Beal

The field museum / Roger Reeves

A portrait of the writer as a rabbit / Sabine Heinlein

There were such things / W.S. Di Piero

Likable / Deb Olin Unferth

The story / B.H. Fairchild

Consequence / Eric Fair

The lit cloud / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

The reader / Robert Coover

Islands / Yusef Komunyakaa

Confessions of a recovering environmentalist / Paul Kingsnorth

Ways to begin a poem / Rachel Rose

In Colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes / Eduardo C. Corral

Housebreaking / Sarah Frisch

W.C. Fields takes a walk / Paisley Rekdal

Out of date: the joys of obsolescence / Hal Crowther

My neighbor's body / Beckian Fritz Goldberg

Philanthropy / Suzanne Rivecca / Interrupting aubade ending in epiphany / Marcus Wicker

Painting the summer palace of the queen / Philip Kelly

Villon's epitaph (ballade of the hanged men) / François Villon

If the man took / Joanna Ruocco

All-American / David Hernandez

The waste land app / Tess Taylor

Akhmatova / Matthew Dickman

Cadiz, Missouri / Robert Long Foreman

Getting by / Bob Hicok

Imagination / Sigrid Nunez

The earth itself / Timothy Donnelly

Love like that / Jude Nutter

The gentleman's library, a nowaday redux / Bill Cotter

Self-portrait as Superman (alternate take) / Jake Adam York.