The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, in its third season, explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets, songwriters, and artists including Safia Elhillo, Olivia Gatwood, Daniel Ash + David J, Kari Byron, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, and many more. The podcast also invites poets to submit their work to appear on periodic submitted poetry episodes. It is from those episodes, where we uniquely combine the poem in written form and the poet reciting their poem for the podcast in audio form, that we have found six wonderful nominees for the Pushcart Prize 2025.
Please enjoy each of these poets as they – and we – anxiously await the selection decisions of the Pushcart Prize jury. The nominated poems (and poets) are as follows:
- light// [verb] by Maddy Robinson
- Sins of Gold by Daude Teel
- I Would Have Called you Oma by Joanne Jagoda
- Girlhood by Lucy Rattner
- Severing by Jaime Lam
- You left a box of neckties by Ani Jones
More about the nominated poets:
Maddy Robinson is a writer from the Rocky Mountains. She writes in many genres, including short stories, news articles, and travel impressions. Her creative work has been featured on CBC Books, Ember Chasm Review, and elsewhere. She interviews writers for Calgary’s monthly literary radio feature.
Daude Teel is an aspiring poet, proet, and playwright. He has been published in multiple magazines including The Wingless Dreamer, Poets Choice, The African Writer Magazine, and has been a guest on the wonderful Poets and Muses podcast.
After retiring, one inspiring writing workshop launched Joanne Jagoda of Oakland, California on an unexpected writing trajectory. Her short stories, poetry and creative nonfiction appear on-line and in numerous print anthologies including The Awakenings Review, Dreamers Magazine, Passager, A Poet’s Siddur, Persimmon Tree, Better After 50, The Write Launch, Heat the Grease We’re Frying up Some Poetry, Project Healthy Love (Riza Press) and Still You, Poems of Illness and Healing. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination and has won a number of contests. In 2022, Joanne received first place in the Gemini Open Poetry competition. Writing helped her get through challenging times like her breast cancer diagnosis. Her first book of poetry My Runaway Hourglass, Seventy Poems Celebrating Seventy Years was conceived during the pandemic, (Poetica Publications, 2020). Joanne also had the opportunity to work with several well-known poets during the pandemic. She enjoys taking Bay Area and national writing workshops, and spoiling her seven grandchildren who call her Savta.
Lucy Rattner is a soon-to-be-20-year-old poet from Orangeburg, New York. Instagram @lucyrattner
Jaime Lam is a biracial, queer woman who is quietly from the corn part of Illinois, currently fawning over the moss in Savannah, Georgia. She graduated from Knox College with a degree in English as well as Creative Writing, attempting to conquer three genres: creative nonfiction, poetry, and urban fantasy. On one hand, she writes trauma with a flourish in an attempt to beautify the ugly. On the other, she plays in witches, werewolves, and ghosts. In general, she wishes everyone to drink water, breathe, and eat chocolate if you can.
Instagram: rainjmerain
Ani Jones is an emerging poet based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They hold a BA in English from the University of Cincinnati. Their work is featured in the Playful Porpoise Magazine, Irshaad Poetry, and other publications. Their work centers around grief, queerness, and the active discovery of the self and the world.
Instagram: @anijonez
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses.
The Pushcart Prize has been a labor of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60’s and 70’s.
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