Best of the Net Nominees 2021
we are so excited to announce our nominees for Best of the Net 2021. we submitted 6 poems and 3 pieces of artwork for the 2021 season. The Best of the […]
Emily’s Corset by Stephanie Saywell
Before ballet, Emily pulls off her shirt and all I see is white brocade, six metal busks – a dainty spine sealing up her stomach, bulletproof. She presents her […]
Ode to the Color Grey by Lindsay Cortright
I call you Switzerland of hues, neither light nor dark. My thoughts are colored in every shade of you: stillness between storms in hurricane skies, early morning mist, the faint […]
Agnostic by Nadine Klassen
Your mother asks, do you believe yourself. You point to god and say, at least I have a shadow. If only those are blessed, who do not see, what […]
The Bones My Mother Left Me by Erica Perry
(after Beau Taplin) I am here to tell you what your mother can’t: Your body is not a temple. You are not some fragile thing that crumbles. You will not […]
