We’ve heard a lot of good news lately, including that a poem from our miCRo series, “Iraq Good” by Hugh Martin, was chosen as a Pushcart Prize winner and will appear in The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2019 edition!
Hugh Martin
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle said in her introduction of “Iraq Good” that “With remarkable artistry, Martin simultaneously warms us and chills us as dusk descends” on the Sadiyah police compound of the poem’s setting. Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013) and the forthcoming Service (BOA Editions, 2018). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker. He is completing a PhD at Ohio University.
That’s only the best of the good news we have to share!
The Ohio Arts Council announced its 2018 Individual Excellence Awards, including many members of the CR family:
- Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen
- Current and former editorial assistants Luke Geddes, Matt Jones, and Julia Koets
- Contributors Heather Christle (15.2) and F. Daniel Rzicznek (8.1)
- UC Creative Writing Coordinator Jenn Habel
Poets from our pages continue to rack up the book prizes too. Congratulations to Karen Skolfield (15.1) on winning the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize with Battle Dress, and Joseph Capista (15.2) on winning the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press for his collection Intrusive Beauty.
Cary Holladay (13.1) has a book of fiction, Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella, also from Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, forthcoming in 2019.
And finally, Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle visited local NPR station WVXU’s program “Around Cincinnati” to talk about her own poetry and what we do here at the CR.
We hope May continues to bring you good news too!
