Best of the Net 2018  
2018 POETRY WINNERS Threa Almontaser’s “Sympathy for Foreign Mothers” from Baltimore Review Carolee Bennett’s “Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second” from Contrary Magazine Hayan Charara’s “Apokaluptein” from The Adroit Journal Leila Chatti’s “Nulligravida Nocture” from Los Angeles Review Imani Davis’s “The Recital” from Muzzle Magazine Alice Friman’s “Dumped at Heaven's Gate” from Shenandoah Sarah Giragosian’s “Thumbnails of America” from The Offing Amanda Galvan Huynh’s “When My Little Sister Mistakes Selena for Selena Gomez” from Up the Staircase Quarterly Christine Kitano’s “Denim” from Portland Review Wendy Oleson’s “Dirt” from Split Rock Review Dean Rader’s “History” from Kenyon Review Katherine Riegel’s “We Had to Leave” from Psaltery and Lyre F. Daniel Rzicznek’s “Buffleheads” from North American Review
Threa Almontaser’s “Sympathy for Foreign Mothers” from Baltimore Review Carolee Bennett’s “Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second” from Contrary Magazine Hayan Charara’s “Apokaluptein” from The Adroit Journal Leila Chatti’s “Nulligravida Nocture” from Los Angeles Review Imani Davis’s “The Recital” from Muzzle Magazine Alice Friman’s “Dumped at Heaven's Gate” from Shenandoah Sarah Giragosian’s “Thumbnails of America” from The Offing Amanda Galvan Huynh’s “When My Little Sister Mistakes Selena for Selena Gomez” from Up the Staircase Quarterly Christine Kitano’s “Denim” from Portland Review Wendy Oleson’s “Dirt” from Split Rock Review Dean Rader’s “History” from Kenyon Review Katherine Riegel’s “We Had to Leave” from Psaltery and Lyre F. Daniel Rzicznek’s “Buffleheads” from North American Review
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