Cultural Daily is proud to announce its Pushcart Nominees for 2021. This year, says Poetry Editor Alexis Rhone Fancher, there were so many outstanding poems to choose from, picking the nominees was hard. But in the end, the following poems published in Cultural Daily were nominated: Gustavo Hernandez Sept. 2, 2021 “Third Shift” Grace Bauer …
When I first read Rich Ferguson’s Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates, I thought he was only cataloguing what makes life chaotic and difficult. However, it became clear fairly quickly that while he is often discussing the toxic, the painful, and the frightening, where he is best is when he is providing ways through the …
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He Says, She Says He says, what does this mean? She says, it means what it feels like it means. He says, but I don’t feel anything. She says, that could mean everything. He says, but what if we play the record backwards? What if we hold our memories up to a mirror? What will …
The National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. (NBPF), a not-for-profit organization founded in 2016, has selected Rich Ferguson to serve as the State of California Beat Poet Laureate for a two-year term from Sept. 2020 to Sept. 2022. In May 2020 the NBPF board members selected Ferguson based on his peers’ recommendations for his literary accomplishments …
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Then Came You (A Love Poem For Evelyn) by CLS Ferguson I grew in the womb of a woman who did not raise me. She loved me enough to pick my mother for me. That was the beginning of my desire for you. My friends and I grew older, picked spouses and partners. Most of …
The 2015 Cultural Weekly Open Submission period, featuring the Jack Grapes’ Poetry Prize, has ended. The winners and finalists decided. All the poems were read blind, ie: the poet’s name was removed from the poems and substituted with a number. All poems were read in their entirety. This year, almost 500 poems were submitted. From …
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CLS Ferguson, PhD is a communication professor at Mt. San Antonio College and California State University, Northridge and a Mary Kay Sales Director. CLS (Crystal Lane Swift) has published poetry in Shangri-La Shack, Still Points Quarterly, PQLeer, and other places. Her poetry collection, God Bless Paul, is out on Rosedog Books and her chapbook, The …
Rich Ferguson is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who has been published in the LA TIMES, Opium Magazine, has been widely anthologized, spotlighted on PBS (Egg: The Art Show), was a winner in Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match L.A., and his spoken word/music videos have been featured internationally. Ferguson is host of the weekly Blog …
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