Best of the Net & Pushcart Nominees 2016

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. Last 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

• Etch A Sketch, by Jackson Sabbagh
• Starlab, by Wren Awry
• Elegy for my Father, by Jenne Knight
• Making Sense of Another Dark Night, I’m Learning to Unwait, by Ariana D. Den Bleyker
• Open (Casket), by Alisha Dietzman
• Long Weekend, by Tasha Graff

Pushcart Prize

• Trigger Warning, by Hannah Dellabella
• The Burning Girl, by Lucy M. Logsdon
• girl/creature, by Emily Corwin
• Panic Attack as a 4 Part Word Problem, by Torrin Greathouse
• When a Father is Dying, by M. Brett Gaffney
• Eschatology, by Mary Alice Endicott

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!