Best of the Net Nominations

2021

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