Best of the Net 2013  
2013 POETRY WINNERS Ciaran Berry's "Spooky Action at a Distance" from Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art Ash Bowen's "Letter from a Mistress" from Pebble Lake Review Traci Brimhall's "How the Serpent King's Daughter Received Her Wings" from Mary: A Journal of New Writing Dan Chelotti's "The Job Market" from iO: A Journal of New American Poetry Lisa Fay Coutley's "Careo" from Ninth Letter Barbara Daniels's "Sugaring" from The Cortland Review Joanne Diaz's "Little Terror" from Memorious Janelle DolRayne's "Writing Home from Thick Shadows" from apt Claudia Emerson's "The Ocularist" from Blackbird Brent Goodman's "Missile Test" from Eleven Eleven Noah Eli Gordon's "What Do I Know" from Interrupture Megan Grumbling's "Vapors" from The Baltimore Review Christopher Howell's "The Life Boat Dream" from Cascadia Review Luisa A. Igloria's "The Loss and Recovery of Wings" from ARDOR Chris Joyner's "Why She Wrestles" from Penduline Press Rob Kenagy's "It's Hard for Me to Think of my Heart as Anything" from Vinyl Poetry Michael Marberry's "Junk" from Guernica Magazine Shane McCrae's "Heads" from Petri Press Matthew Olzmann's "'Nothing Gets Through to You, Jackass'" from B O D Y Rae Paris's "The Forgetting Tree" from Guernica Magazine ***
Ciaran Berry's "Spooky Action at a Distance" from Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art Ash Bowen's "Letter from a Mistress" from Pebble Lake Review Traci Brimhall's "How the Serpent King's Daughter Received Her Wings" from Mary: A Journal of New Writing Dan Chelotti's "The Job Market" from iO: A Journal of New American Poetry Lisa Fay Coutley's "Careo" from Ninth Letter Barbara Daniels's "Sugaring" from The Cortland Review Joanne Diaz's "Little Terror" from Memorious Janelle DolRayne's "Writing Home from Thick Shadows" from apt Claudia Emerson's "The Ocularist" from Blackbird Brent Goodman's "Missile Test" from Eleven Eleven Noah Eli Gordon's "What Do I Know" from Interrupture Megan Grumbling's "Vapors" from The Baltimore Review Christopher Howell's "The Life Boat Dream" from Cascadia Review Luisa A. Igloria's "The Loss and Recovery of Wings" from ARDOR Chris Joyner's "Why She Wrestles" from Penduline Press Rob Kenagy's "It's Hard for Me to Think of my Heart as Anything" from Vinyl Poetry Michael Marberry's "Junk" from Guernica Magazine Shane McCrae's "Heads" from Petri Press Matthew Olzmann's "'Nothing Gets Through to You, Jackass'" from B O D Y Rae Paris's "The Forgetting Tree" from Guernica Magazine
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