Announcing Our Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2019
One of the most difficult tasks I face as editor of Ancient Paths Online is sifting through the many excellent poems published throughout...
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Nov 19, 20191 min read
RIP
As Mrs. Burns is slouching in her urn I suppose you'd say she'd like to be at peace although Joanna hasn't managed to reserve a plot....
Nov 9, 20191 min read
The Red Road
Windblown, rain-born, mothers with children, their aged parents, arm-hung, basket-carried, free pedaling, four-legged, or three-legged,...
Oct 17, 20191 min read
A Marriage in Beds
I. Single The futon’s fabric was bare; the stuffing was shot through with collapse from our sitting lap-stacked in the center. One...
Oct 17, 20191 min read
God's Language
After dinner, the adults chat. I don’t know what they discuss. Their children make demands of me— Bring seven shells down from the...
Oct 17, 20191 min read
May It Not Come Undone
Thick rainbow chard and yellow corn; We run past the market tents To where the light hangs over the river In eternal September....
Oct 16, 20191 min read
The Night Shift
every night we become master burpers, sooth sayers, rockers; our prayers go straight up every night we lose our breath, our pace ...
Oct 11, 20184 min read
Ancient Paths 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
Every year, hundreds of presses nominate poems, short stories, and novel excerpts for the Pushcart Prize. Pushcart Press has been judging...
Mar 10, 20182 min read
The Poetry of Paul David Atkins
Paul David Adkins writes poetry, he says, “partly to record my experiences, and partly to see how finely I can tune language to say...
Mar 5, 20181 min read
Fairytales and Dustballs
First published in Issue 9 (Fall 2002) of Ancient Paths literary magazine, "Fairtyales and Dustballs" was a 2002 Pushcart Prize nominee....
Mar 1, 20186 min read
A History Lesson
The following short story comes from the Ancient Paths archives, Issue 15. It was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009. A History...
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