Best of the Net 2009  
F I C T I O N Nicole Callihan's "One Fish, Two Fish" from InDigest Magazine Krishan Coupland's "Sexy, Hot, Tragic, Sad Accident" from Eclectica Taylur Thu Hien Ngo's "I am my Rooster" from Blackbird Alix Ohlin's "Stranger Things Have Happened" from failbetter M.O. Walsh's "Finds: A Game" from LITnIMAGE P O E T R Y Kim Addonizio's "For You" from Pirene's Fountain Poetry Journal Mary Biddinger's "Miniatures" from Slant Deborah Bogen's "Driving Home Trying Not to Change the Station" from Poemeleon Rachel Bunting's "The Apiary" from Boxcar Poetry Review Oliver de la Paz's "The Surgical Theater as Spirit Cabinet" from Diode Poetry Journal Matthew Dickman's "Slow Dance" from Narrative Magazine Matt Donovan's "Coleridge in Scotland, Walking" from Blackbird David Graham's "The Look of a Bay Mare" from Poemeleon Leslie Harrison's "How I Became A Ghost" from Memorious Paul Hostovsky's "Sick Well" from The Scrambler Anna Journey's "Elegy: I Pass by the Erotic Bakery" from Blackbird Leslie LaChance 's "Left" from Apple Valley Review Iris A. Law's "Circumnavigation" from Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Al Maginnes's "The Moon as Absence and Desire" from Valparaiso Poetry Review Adrian Matejka's "Synth Composite Basketball: No More Court" from Anti- Erin Murphy's "Collecting Sea Shells, You Don't Stop" from The Summerset Review Melissa Range's "Harpoon" from Memorious Ales Steger's "Earring" (trans. by Brian Henry) from Guernica Rob Talbert's "what practice makes" from Boxcar Poetry Review Lafayette Wattles's "I Couldn't Tell Which Were The Thoughts And Which Were The Trees" from Boxcar Poetry Review