Best of the Net 2008  



F I C T I O N

Teju Cole's "Modern Girls" from Qarrtsiluni
Barry Jay Kaplan's "His Wife" from Apple Valley Review
Christopher Lowe's "A Pattern of Chaos" from Fiction Weekly
Jill McCorkle's "Magic Words" from Narrative Magazine
Wayne Shannon's "Sin Nombre" from blossombones


P O E T R Y

Pat Daneman's "Thanksgiving" from Apple Valley Review
Deborah DeNicola's "The Bacchanalia of Trash" from The Externalist
Jehanne Dubrow's "A Brief Ontology of Guilt" from Mezzo Cammin
Jehanne Dubrow's "The Amber Brooch" from Mezzo Cammin
Patrick Ryan Frank's "Virginitiphobia" from The Boxcar Poetry Review
Rob Hardy's "Jane Austen's Toes" from Apple Valley Review
Mary Crockett Hill's "Newton’s Cradle" from Juked
Paul Hostovsky's "To A Motion Activated Paper Towel Dispenser" from Thick With Conviction
Youna Kwak's "Petal" from Left Facing Bird
Amy Fetzer Larakers's "It begins in anise and ends in Asheville" from blossombones
Diane Lockward's "Idiosyncrasies of the Body" from Rattle
Clay Matthews's "Poem in Which I Sort of Break Down" from No Tell Motel
Jeff Newberry's "Deep, Like Blood" from Memorious
Susan Slaviero's "The Noir Wife" from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal
Maggie Smith's "Manic Panic" from failbetter
Cheryl Snell's "Fire on the Cuyahoga" from Juked
Lafayette Wattles's "Sometimes a Deer is Just a Deer" from The Boxcar Poetry Review





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