Best of the Net Nominations

2024

Everywhere All the Time (with a Line from Ashley Capps)
Eric Roy
April 2024, Poetry

Metaphysical Exam
Liz Irvin
January 2024, Poetry

Paternity Test
Carol Alexander
January 2024, Poetry

The Empath
Anne Champion
October 2023, Poetry

Came as Ravens
Mark Anthony Burke
October 2023, Poetry

the all
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
July 2023, Poetry
 
WORKEROLICK
Mark Crimmins
April 2024, fiction
 
Under the Texan Sun
Suzanne C Martinez
January 2024, fiction
 
Yard Sale
Sarah Chavera Edwards
April 2024, nonfiction

It’s Ungodly Cold in Kahramanmaraş
Caroline N. Simpson
January 2024, nonfiction

Allium, Hydra, Greece 
Roger Camp
April 2024, visual art

Another Political Season
Stephen Curtis Wilson
April 2024, visual art

Antique Aquarians 1
Steve Zimmerman
January 2024, visual art

2023

Blind in One Eye, Can’t See Out of the Other
Cyn Kitchen
April 2023, Poetry

Miss You and the Blue Jean Hat
MD Bier
October 2022, Poetry

Thursday, 12:20 p.m., Saturday, 2:22 p.m., Thursday, 3:25 p.m.
Justin Lacour
July 2022, Poetry

The Very First Venus Flytrap
Dante Novario
July 2022, Poetry

Do You Have an Accent?
Elizabeth Curley
April 2022, Poetry

Ode to Candle Stub
Cathy Hollister
October 2022, Poetry

Falling
Julia Poole
April 2023, Fiction

Forecast
Aaron Sandberg
July 2022, Fiction

Governing the Western Field
Richard Holinger
April 2023, Nonfiction

Aggregates
Dian Parker
July 2022, Nonfiction

Barn en Route to Loweville
Jim Ross
October 2022, Art

Pharmacopia
Michael Hower
April 2023, Art

Jaywalking
Larena Nellies-Ortiz
January 2023, Art

2022

Bad Memories of the Good Old Days
Juan David Cruz-Duarte
April 2021, Poetry

Bench Warrant Wednesday
Tobi Alfier
April 2021, Poetry

Country Road at Night, North Carolina, 1979
E. Laura Golberg
April 2021, Poetry

The Final Exam
Elison Alcovendaz
January 2021, Fiction

How to Draw a Horse
Daisy Bassen
April 2021, Poetry

Hunger Stones
Claire Scott
January 2021, Poetry

Grace in Four Parts
Michelle Cacho-Negrete
April 2021, Nonfiction

Just Take Me Home
Harry Longstreet
January 2021, Art

Limited Light
Paul Rabinowitz
July 2020, Art

Solo Flight
Adeet Deshmukh
October 2020, Art

Sonny Rollins’s Bridge
Sean Murphy
January 2021, Poetry

A Tale of Two Bicyclists
Hiram Perez
October 2020, Nonfiction

We Don’t Promise You a Rose Garden
Theo Greenblatt
January 2021, Fiction

2020

Duality
Alice B Fogel
July 2019, Poetry

On The Complexity of Symbols
Michele Reese
July 2019, Poetry

Visiting Poet in Lockdown
Glen Sorestad
July 2019, Poetry

Inauguration Day
Charles Springer
October 2019, Poetry

Beach Trip
Danielle Hanson
October 2019, Poetry

Flight
Kelley Jean White
April 2020, Poetry

The Obedient Daughter
Joel Wayne
April 2020, Fiction

Stop a Second
James William Gardner
April 2020, Fiction

Intersection
Carlos Andrés Gómez
October 2019, Nonfiction

Figs and Snaps
Virginia Watts
January 2020, Nonfiction

2019

Mailbox Number Eight
Haydée Touitou
April 2019, Nonfiction

The Statue of Robert E. Lee Contemplates his Removal
Scott McDaniel
April 2019, Poetry

Waking at Night
Sharon Chmielarz
July 2018, Poetry

Popeye
Michael Karl Ritchie
January 2019, Fiction

Vantablack
Stuart James Forrest
July 2018, Poetry

Unarmed Combat
Nicolas Ridley
January 2019, Nonfiction

The Absurdist Son of an Immigrant Grapples with Comprehending His Google News Feed
Gary Singh
July 2018, Poetry

Lobster in Broth
Gregory Loselle
January 2019, Poetry

Noble Metal, Best of Class
Gerard Sarnat
January 2019, Fiction

Psychologists Say That When Someone Calls You by the Wrong Name, It’s Because They Love You
Kasandra S. Larsen
April 2019, Poetry

2018

The Blue Ones
Natalie E. Illum
April 2018, Poetry

The Patriarch Strokes a White Cat (Or How to Defeat Fascism)
Viviane Vives
April 2018, Fiction

All Earth is Dull and Muddy
Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett
April 2018, Poetry

Train at Night in the Desert
Amie Sharp
January 2018, Poetry

Toxic Gaming
Patricia Coleman
April 2018, Nonfiction

We’d Planned
Lowell Jaeger
January 2018, Poetry

My Own Van Gogh
Charles Leipart
April 2018, Fiction

Strangler Fig
Beth Sherman
October 2017, Poetry

High School Lunch
Kelsey Ann Kerr
October 2017, Poetry

Babelogue
Michelle Bowdler
January 2018, Nonfiction