Join us in congratulating our poetry selection contributors for the 2026 Best of the Net issue. The Ubiquitous Garden by Laura Da', Revision by B. Do, Aphrodite as a Fat Woman by Elizabeth Higgins, SELFISH GIRL by @suzchef.bsky.social, mother tongue by Mike Liu, Jockey by Meghan Miraglia, they say the rice won’t grow without blood by Sreeja Naskar, After Practice, A Black Boy Goes Supernova by @gphibbett, Every Grace, Starts as a Hole by Ziqr Peehu, and Searching for QUeer Joy in Tennessee by Merrick Sloane are our poetry selections for 2026!

Join us in congratulating our poetry selection contributors for the 2026 Best of the Net issue.

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Announcing our 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Go to bestofthenetanthology.com to see all of the contributors and finalists. Celebrate our newest issue with us and give a big round of applause to everyone involved.

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A longer read, but thank you to @theshorepoetry.bsky.social for nominating this poem for #BestoftheNet! Feels good when someone believes in you. #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

“A Proper Shower”

Thanks to the editors of #BrackenMagazine for nominating "Meyer Lemon" (Issue XII) for Best of the Net, alongside #EdBrickell, #SarahBrowning, #JeanAnneFeldeisen, #SatiMookherjee, and #BrianSimoneau.

Read the full poem: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/me...

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Love in the Time of Dementia — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Creative Nonfiction: "Love in the Time of Dementia" by Cynthia Stock

Going Back to Miami — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Creative Nonfiction: "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Artificial Intelligence — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Fiction: "Artificial Intelligence" by Kathleen Reeves

No Ponyboy — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Fiction: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard

Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit"
by Annette Sisson

Monarchs — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "Monarchs" by Gregory Lobas

Over and Over — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "Over and Over" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social

a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds" by Mikey Jones

Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah"
by Jeff Hardin

Punctuation, Accent, Marks — Susurrus

@susurrusmag.bsky.social's 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nomination in Poetry: "Punctuation, Accent, Marks"
by Laura Cesarco Eglin

2026 Best of the Net Nominations

Poetry: "Punctuation, Accent, Marks" by Laura Cesarco Eglin; "Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah" by Jeff Hardin; "a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds" by Mikey Jones; "Over and Over" by Hiram Larew; "Monarchs" by Gregory Lobas; "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit" by Annette Sisson

Fiction: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard; "Artificial Intelligence" by Kathleen Reeves Nonfiction: "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; "Love in the Time of Dementia" by Cynthia Stock

Photography: Sean Sexton, Kiko Salazar, and Gordon Johnston

🎉Congratulations to our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nominations! 🎉

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Scroll down to Awards and Honors for a full list of our #BestOfTheNet nominees, finalists, and longlisters with links to their poems:
lightpoetrymagazine.com/news-events/

Before you enjoy our 8 Poems of the Week—on a champ of chimps, some chimplike chumps & more (link in thread)—please join us in celebrating Light’s Best of the Net nominees for July ‘24 through June ‘25 (link in thread takes you to all the poems)!
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Martin Kennedy Yates: Alliterative Poet Martin Kennedy Yates is an emerging poet who has had work in recent editions of The Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Butcher’s Dog, Anthropocene, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Storms, and Finished Creatures.

How exciting to get a #BestOfTheNet nomination for my essay exploring the creation of my 'Scousenlish' poems & their relationship to the alliterative form of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - follow link...
alliteration.net/poets/martin...
Thank you @rhunedhel.bsky.social for the love 🥰
#BOTN

How exciting to get a #BestOfTheNet nomination for my essay exploring the creation of my 'Scousenlish' poems & their relationship to the alliterative form of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - follow link for more - alliteration.net/poets/martin...
Thank you @rhunedhel.bsky.social for the love 🥰

Please join us in celebrating our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology! Check out all these amazing pieces in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. Best of luck to all the nominees!

#bestofthenet #theflreview

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Welsh #poetry presses. Make sure you consider nominating your writers for prizes such as @pushcartprize.bsky.social #laurelprize @forwardprizes.bsky.social and #bestofthenet etc. there’s not many presses here and nominations can be thin on the ground! Really boosts the writers
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Night of the Winter Solstice is my #bestofthenet nominated poem! 💙 Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

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Honoured to be nominated for #bestofthenet by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 💙

Night Mid Night by John Simmons   I woke in the dead of night, as often I do, lying there in the deep duvet darkness, listening, listening to shells telling the most dreadful stories from far away, oceans away, born...

John Simmons - "Night Mid Night"
stonecirclereview.com/night-mid-ni...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Gaudy Night by Catherine Rockwood   It was a time of disasters but very small ones. Friday, and a party on elsewhere. A bus for revelers arrived at New Hall. I saw it from the field outside on my way to a frie...

Catherine Rockwood (@martin65.bsky.social) - "Gaudy Night"
stonecirclereview.com/gaudy-night/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

in my dreams i saved us by Joel LeBlanc   A voice sings a lullaby: “The animals went in two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah!” Noah is drunk in the corner, grieving the past, he thought the ark would make him happy. Naamah is wash...

Joel LeBlanc (@cottageinwood.bsky.social) - "in my dreams i saved us"
stonecirclereview.com/in-my-dreams/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

second skin by Leander He   august closes like a wound. it’s tradition now: makemy parents cry every summer by injecting something new,cover myself with body hair and tattoos so that someoneelse will love me. th...

Leander He - "second skin"
stonecirclereview.com/second-skin/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Girl à feuilles caduques by Carrie Chappell   I know a bed can hold more than a sleeping body. I know a body can hold more than a sleeping girl. Parts of me, like branches, have always been erect, Have never slumbered. Under...

Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Bertha by Sophia Carroll   I take it in turns, governess & ungovernable. Woman who fears knife-shine laughter, & witch who descends from the attic. Voice calling over the moors & the one who answers it. ...

Sophia Carroll (@torpor-chamber.bsky.social) - "Bertha"
stonecirclereview.com/bertha/
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I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

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