11/02/2025
Edgar & Lenore's Publishinng House is honored to formally nominate the following contributors for the 2026 Pushcart Award in recognition of their outstanding achievements and unwavering commitment to excellence in Poetry & Literature:
1. Eric Lawson – Backseat Emperor (poem)
“Were you stationed in Judea or Britannia
or Egypt only to end up drifting after the empire
became holy and your pagan brethren were
all losing their heads, becoming Christians,
and fleeing East towards Constantinople?”
2.
Eric Lawson for Processing America (poem)
“America the people.
America the place.
America the thing.
America the noun, verb, and adjective abused by and for Americans.
America the meaning of which is subject to change daily, ad nauseam.
America where the rules change while you’re still playing the game."
3.
Richard Modiano –( Introduction) - Processing America (2025 – Edgar & Lenore’s Publishing House)
“Processing America is a visceral, unapologetic poetic reckoning—an autopsy of the American dream in the era of burnout, bureaucracy, and broken promises. With equal parts indignation and insight, Eric Lawson takes the reader on a searing journey through the spiritual decay and absurdities of 21st-century America, where patriotism has become performance, democracy is drowned in debt, and empathy is an endangered species.”
