Pushcart Nominations 2026!

Dear Amazing Readers and Contributors,

Happy Pushcart season! We are thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2026 cycle. We feel honored that we had such an abundance of truly excellent poems to choose from. These six poems especially resonated with us this Pushcart season and urged us into novel avenues of thought and meaning. As we work in production of our 32nd issue, we feel thankful for the enthusiasm that our readers, submitters and contributors bring to The Shore. It means the world to us. We hope you enjoy visiting, or revisiting, these selections.

Ruben Borg “Fingerprints” (preview to Issue 32!)
Ben Cooper “Prelude: Displacement”
Samuel Dickerson “A Bowl of Hot Soup in Dallas, TX”
Haley DiRenzo “Confession to the Stars Who Will Never Be My Children”
Dina Folgia “We Could Have Been a Lake”
Nicole Stander “White Out”

With Deep Appreciation,
Sarah, Caroline & John