We love all of our contributors, so choosing just six to nominate is a little like asking a parent to choose their favorite child. Well, okay, maybe not quite that extreme, but you get the drift.
Below are our nominations for this year's Best of the Net anthology, but really, we'd nominate all of you if we could.
Cati Porter
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“In the Gardens of Esalen (Ode to a Husband)”
by Michelle Bitting
“To the Men in the Waiting Room of the Breast Diagnostic Center”
by Andrea O’Brien
“Stingrays”
by William Palmer
“A Few Donuts (Or, You Must Try the Honeybun)”
by Chip Corwin and Michael Theune
“Bill Matthews”
by Wendy Vardaman and Greer Dubois
“The Dog Sonnets”
by The Long Table Poets