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 Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online […]
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 back, her oxytocin formula tattoo peeking over the seam. My fingers are there before me, hooked through the corded bunny ears. I unbow and […]
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 lines of tree branches, pencil-etched across the skyline from below, the spaces between blurred, lines of graphite smeared by my lover’s left hand. I love […]
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 happens when you touch yourself? Your mother says, it’s only natural. You point to your skin and say, the wind I was dragged across […]
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 be irreparably damaged when the earth shakes or when fire ravages your rooftop. The flood will not leave lines when the tide recedes. You are […]
