Eunhae Han’s Reviews > The Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024 Edition > Status Update

The truth of the matter is that black people have a 12,000-year history of noble, sacred, and dignified relationship to soil that far surpasses our 246 years of enslavement and seventy-five years of sharecropping in the United States.

"If you're not affected by climate change today, that itself is a privilege," said climate activist Andrea Manning.

As a species, we suffer from a sort of collective amnesia brought on by a phenomenon called "shifting baseline syndrome." Shifting baselines are what allow each new generation of people to be born into a world that appears "normal" to them, even as their grandparents loudly lament "the way things used to be." Those lamentations die with the older generation, and the new generation begins the process over

DREAMING OF WATER
WITH TIGER
SALAMANDERS
by SAM KECK SCOTT
from LONGREADS

SELF PORTRAIT AS MARY MAGDALENE IN THE STYLE
OF GENTILESCHI
by KAMERYN ALEXA CARTER
trom TORCH

“Fight week” by Laura Van Den Berg

“Two breaths” by Christina Rivera Cogswell

“Everychild” by Alice Christie