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Cecilia Woloch
Cecilia Woloch comes from a long line of fortune tellers and labor activists. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, and the author of six previous collections of poems: Sacrifice, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, Late, Narcissus, Carpathia, Earth, and Sur la Route (On the Road). She collaborates regularly with musicians, dancers, visual artists and theatre artists. Her writing has been translated and published in French, German, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Romanes.
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Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall
Cecilia Woloch
An extended poem in linked sections, in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, LABOR weaves one man's personal history into the history of work and justice in America.
"In Labor, Woloch pulls a voice from the archives—that of Ted Gall, a miner and union organizer in Western Pennsylvania during the first half of the twentieth century. This poem, composed almost entirely in words written by Gall himself, gives a first-hand account of what it was like in the mines, in the unions, and in the spirits of the working poor, 'lifting their voices like trumpets' to sound what is somehow both historical and timely. This is an important contribution to Appalachian docupoetics and cross-racial labor solidarity. Woloch is a rescuer of language, a poet who knows where to dig up truths."—Joy Priest
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Accents Publishing Nominees for The Pushcart Prize
Accents Publishing is proud to announce this year's nominations for The Pushcart Prize!
- "Passing Manifesto" from The Chaos of Desire by Marin Bodakov
- "Mining (1918–1920s)" from Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall by Cecilia Woloch
- "Would They Hide Us?" from Woe & Awe by Lisa M. Miller
- "Revival" from Tainted by Wendy Jett
- "Coping" from Blast Radius by Douglas Edward Self
- "Was It a Dream?" from Udder Uproar by Catherine Perkins
Congratulations to the authors for the nominations and we look forward to the results!
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