This year’s Best of the Net nominations have been submitted! Please join me in congratulating the nominees and read the chosen poems here:

Andrew Badger: Shaving Dad
KC Bosch and Stan Galloway: Two Beers Down
Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: Let Grief Pour Out of You as if You Are Watering a Garden
Beth Konkoski: When I Was Eleven
Addy Robinson McCulloch: Hansel in Darkness
Jeffrey Smyers: Stray

I don’t need to tell you how hard it is to choose 6 poems for this nomination each year. Take a few moments to reread these wonderful poems and discover them again.