Rust + Moth

Rust + Moth’s Winter 2018 issue is now out in print! These poems are liminal, evening-dark, and determined. Come leaf through the year’s last pages and take notes when you can — this is a graduate-level class on how to carry a silence.

With new poetry from Tanya Singh, Brandon Melendez, Kristy Bowen, Reilly D. Cox, Kanika Lawton, Keith Carver, Aldo Amparán, John Sweet, Yuan Changming, Jennifer Wolkin, Darren C. Demaree, Mariya (Masha) Deykute, Anthony Lawrence, D.W. Struthers, Luisana Cortez, Catherine Rockwood, Emily Paige Wilson, Ron Stottlemyer, Emily Tuttle, and Jen Stewart Fueston.

Also available on Kindle.

The Best of the Net Anthology gives much-appreciated recognition to authors and journals who publish online, while the Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses. This fall, Rust + Moth devoted time, love, and a few stamps to nominating our favorite poems for these anthologies, and we are proud to shout their names from the rooftops now.

Best of the Net Anthology

• The Capacity for Malignancy is Ancient, by Chera Hammons
• Ascend from the moon, by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
• Frontier, by Lotte Lee Lewis
• Landscape with Human Figures, by Samuel Hughes
• Outside Pablo’s, by Jackson Burgess
• These Are The Things That Shape Us, by Wanda Deglane

Pushcart Prize

• Grief, Carrying, by Kanika Lawton
• Shoveling Snow, by Reilly D. Cox
• The Good Body, by Ginna Luck
• It’s Only Ever Autumn, by Emily Paige Wilson
• How Merleau-Ponty and Anonymous Zen Masters Saved the Author’s Sanity, by Catherine Rockwood
• Collect of the Day, by Emma Bolden

Electricity, innovation, and language rarely strike the same hilltop like this. We invite you to take a closer look at these pieces and see with fresh eyes what poetry is capable of.

Also, if you’re thinking of contributing to Rust + Moth, there’s no better place to get a feel for our journal than these selections. It took us weeks to distill these twelve from the many wonderful poems we published last year — thank you to all of our contributors for making this such a difficult decision. And good luck to our nominees!