2017 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS

our last issue of Maps for Teeth was our biggest yet, and therefore so hard to choose six nominations for Sundress Publications Best of The Net series.  but! we did it (y’all did it though, let’s be real.)

revisit these poems on this first day of October, most magic month of the year.

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Ode To Daddy Yankee by Malcolm Friend

brown sex by Taylor Steele

IT’S SO PRETTY TO DRUNK CRY ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM by Diannely Antigua

boy vs. Real by George Abraham

my cousin asks me about home by JR Mahung

Mixed Tape by Noor Jaber

 

 

 

 

 

 

new preorders up now!

hi pizzafriends & pizzafamily! if you haven’t already seen, we’ve got some NEW PREORDERS up in our shop right now. yes yes yes, you can order jonathan mendoza’s when the crows come & angelica maria’s dolorosa at this very second! Here are all the deets:

when the crows come, by jonathan mendoza – $15 – buynow

estimated shipping: end of april, early may 2017.

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DOLOROSA, by angelica maria – $13 – buynow

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2016 Pushcart Nominations

Every year it gets harder to choose only six of the pieces we’ve published here at Pizza Pi Press to nominate for Pushcarts (Pizzacarts, if you will), which is really the best kind of problem to have: too many essential & vibrant poems. Here are the six we sent out this year, including FOUR from the upcoming issue of Maps for Teeth:

“Black Girl Magic” by Taylor Steele, from Dirty.Mouth.Kiss

“AKA TOP SHELF PERVERTS” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, from RUDE GIRL IS LONELY GIRL

“A Tale of 2 Bloodz” (After J. Cole) by Julian Randall, from Maps for Teeth Winter 2016

“ars poetica” by Sophia Holtz, from Maps for Teeth Winter 2016

“my cousin asks me about home” by JR Mahung, from Maps for Teeth Winter 2016

“The Bomba Man Talks Shit To Malcolm” by Malcolm Friend, from Maps for Teeth Winter 2016

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2015 Pushcart Nominations

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2015 has been a busy year for us, and we’re so happy about all the new friends we’ve made and work we’ve been trusted with publishing. It was really hard to choose among so many amazing pieces, but here are our 2015 Pushcart Prize nominations!

Bounty, Zeke Russell – Maps for Teeth / Issue # 3 / Fall 2015

american is a hyphen, Elaine Hsiang / from: one day i will be louder than all the bruises on your knees (Pizza Pi Press, 2015)

Ok here’s a good one, Josh Elbaum – Maps for Teeth / Issue # 3 / Fall 2015

You Know How To Say Arroz Con Pollo But Not What You Are, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, from: PLASTIC PAJAROS (Pizza Pi Press, 2015)

Inside Voice, Anna Meister – Maps for Teeth / Issue #3 / Fall 2015

Write a Letter to Your Mother About Your Longest Winter, Chen Chen – Maps for Teeth / Issue #2 / Spring 2015

 

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