I-70 Review
Writing and Art from the Middle and Beyond
Al Ortolani's newest collection of poems, The Taco Boat, was recently released by NYQ Books. He is a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize and has been featured in Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. His first novel, Bull in the Ring, was just published by Meadowlark Press. Ortolani is a two-time recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award. He's a husband, father, and grandfather who is currently entertaining the idea of becoming a hermit. However, his wife prefers the company of the neighborhood feminists, and his dog Stanley refuses to live without treats.
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I -70 Review Announces Pushcart Nominations for 2024
John Wall Barger: "The Great Cooling"
Christopher Howell: “A Road Stranger Than We Know"
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski: "Oh, Hello Oracle 2023"
Andrés Rodríguez: "One Day"
Jenny Molberg: "Heartworm"
John Moessner: "Flies in Sunlight"
The Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Entry Fee: $15.00
Cash Prize: $1,000
Jan Duncan-O'Neal
Editor Emeritus, I-70 Review
November 29, 1942
October 05, 2022
The Winner Of The Bill Hickok Humor Award For Poetry 2024
$1000 to Al Ortolani
In Memoriam
Cameron Morse
April 1, 1987
October 10, 2023
Matthew J. Spireng's full-length book Good Work won the 2019 Sinclair Poetry Prize and was published in 2020 by Evening Street Press. His book What Focus Is was published by WordTech Communications. His book Out of Body won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and was published by Bluestem Press. His chapbooks are: Clear Cut, Young Farmer, Encounters, Inspiration Point, winner, 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Just This. He won The MacGuffin's 23rd Annual Poet Hunt and the 2015 Common Ground Review poetry contest, and is a twelve-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Second Place Bill Hickok Humor Award For Poetry 2024:
Michael Mark is the author of Visiting Her in Queens is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet which won the Rattle Chapbook prize. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry Blog, Copper Nickel, The New York Times, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Southern Review, The Sun, 32 Poems, The Poetry Foundation's American Life in Poetry. His two books of stories are Toba and At the Hands of a Thief (Atheneum).
Third Place Bill Hickok Humor Award For Poetry 2024:
Honorable Mention Bill Hickok Humor Award For Poetry 2024:
Deanna Kern Ludwin grew up in Iowa and began moving west at age twenty, landing in Fort Collins, Colorado. Before her retirement, she taught literature and creative writing at Colorado State University. Her poetry and micro fictions, many of them humorous, have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Normal School, Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, Flash, New Millennium Writings, and Copper Nickel. She serves on the advisory board of The Colorado Review and coordinates the Fort Collins Books for Humanity program. Her twenty-pound ginger cat, Ollie, serves as her muse. Witty humans and the Rocky Mountains sustain her.
Eve Ott
December 24, 1936
March 1, 2024
