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Winter 2019 in Print: Watching the Ghost Dissolve
Rust + Moth’s Winter 2019 issue is now available in print! These pages break without bending. On the eve of a dark and critical year, may this fistful of wildflowers flow free through your blood.
With new poetry from Jeri Theriault, Maggie Blake Bailey, Michael Garrigan, Chelsea Hansen, Adam Levon Brown, Al Ortolani, Layla Lenhardt, James Adams, January Pearson, Marisa P. Clark, Rebecca Hawkes, Sheila Wellehan, Brooke Matejka, Cynthia Lu, Kathryn de Lancellotti, Christina Maria Kosch, Jeni De La O, Susan Trofimow, Ron Stottlemyer, Stuart Royle, Joshua Gage, Marc Frazier, Seth Jani, Veronica Kornberg, Leonard Orr, Laurel Radzieski, Clara Trippe, Amee Nassrene Broumand, David Ruekberg, and David Hanlon.
Best of the Net & Pushcart Nominees 2019
The Best of the Net Anthology gives well-deserved recognition to authors and journals who publish online, and the Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses. Our nominations are off, and Rust and Moth is proud to announce our 2019 nominees!
Best of the Net Anthology
- Command, or, Coding a Filter for Sexual Content in an Online Marketplace, by Julia Roth
- We See Fireflies Our First Night in Chicago, by Laura Passin
- womanhood, by Mela Blust
- Laying the Grave Blanket, by James Reidel
- Bomb Pulse with Culpability, by C. Samuel Rees
- The Hands and the Clock, by Deirdre O’Connor
Pushcart Prize
- persephone dreams of a place where the sky falls out, by Kathryne David Gargano
- Dark Souvenirs, by John Amen
- Love Poem: The Asteroid’s Sonnet, by Benjamin Cutler
- Apricots or Maybe Peaches, Both Are Soft, by David Andrews
- Orphan Hagiography, by Joshua Gage
- The Hands and the Clock, by Deirdre O’Connor
We invite you to take a deep dive into these poems and then explore the larger work of the writers who penned them. It took us weeks to distill these eleven pieces from the many wonderful poems we published in the last twelve months — thank you to all of our contributors for making this such a difficult decision. And good luck to our nominees!