Our 2024 nominations for “Best of the Net” (in alphabetical order by poet)
“Photographers of War, 2022” – Idris Anderson
“most everyone we know is swimming” – Mela Blust
“Headscarves” – Roxana Cazan
“Male Mammoths Died in 'Silly Ways' More Often Than Females, Study Finds” – Susan Blackwell Ramsey
“Tahlequah the Orca Once Carried Her Dead Child for Seventeen Days” – Meggie Royer
“Elegy” – C. J. Trotter
From our first two issues, we nominated the following pieces in 2023 (in alphabetical order by poet):
“Metallurgical” – Micki Blenkush
“Presence” – Lauren Camp
“Lost Glasses” – Judy DeCroce
“If I Had Written That Poem I Could Be Happy All My Life” – Charity Everitt
“The Wielding” – Eleanor Kedney
“How Light Asks” – Scott Lowery