Rust + Moth

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!

Rust + Moth’s Winter 2019 issue is live! With new work from such writers as David Ruekberg, Amee Nassrene Broumand, Veronica Kornberg, and Cynthia Lu, these liminal poems walk the line between death, smoke, and new beginnings.

We’ll be publishing new poems online every week and building momentum toward a finalized print edition in December. Join us online as the issue unfolds!