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2016 Best of the Net Anthology nominations

2016 Best of the Net Anthology We are pleased to announce our 2016 Best of the Net Anthology nominations! Fiction Nominees Luke Tennis, “Go Long” Jacqueline Doyle, “Winter Afternoon” Poetry Nominees Rochelle Hurt, “Kaleidoscope” Anne Barngrover, “Fourteen” Naima Woods, “Conjure Woman” Chelsea Dingman, “The Year Between Storms” Alex Barylski, “Via Negativa” Shonte Daniels, “The Distance Sugarcane Travels” Nonfiction Nominee Annie Sheppard, “More of a…

Interview with W.D. Snodgrass

By Greg Nelson Introduction In the fall of 1981, W.D. Snodgrass visited GMU and gave a series of poetry readings and workshops. Instead of reading from his acclaimed earlier work, he read poems from the troubling Fuhrer Bunker to a packed house in three rooms of the Student Union. Instead of critiquing student poems in…

Everest

Faye Moskowitz   She, bored out of her senses, carefully inspects the pimple that precedes the onset of the menses while he compares her to the latest centerfold, checks the Journal for the price of gold, wonders why his feet are always cold. She, too, shivers under the covers, wonders why she tells her secrets…

Interrupted Death (an Excerpt from the Novel)

Josip Novakovich   Chapter One Our hero falls in love with power as soon as he learns how to crawl.   He was born April 1, 1951. Since his parents did not want him to go through life as a Fool’s Day joke, his name was entered for April 2, 1951 in the Birth Registrar’s…

Fable or Folklore

Juliana Spahr   Alcohol has a lot to do with things. But that is only part of the story. We drank nightly of sharp liquors in small glasses. Money was spent and meals were skipped. Then we went home in cabs, stumbled out into the dark and got into bed with one another. It was…

The Reading

Lyn Lifshin   first the words slide under your hair toward where there’s skin they move a tongue close to your eyes a little nibble next verbs are unbuttoning your clothes they sense when your heart beats getting faster press and suck and bump in through your suede the poems whisper they need you you…

Lightning Bugs, Branches

Lyn Lifshin   I always imagine him she said slamming his car into stone cliffs plunging down Big Sur    I still don’t believe it tho it’s like him to make something like this up he loved jokes when we were thru he’d phone me in strange places call the mansion pretending to be some man…

Demonstration

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Daniel Jones   When my father was denied tenure that spring, protesting the war in Vietnam took over as his chief activity. This was back in 1972, when I was nine years old. By then we’d moved out of the faculty apartments and were living in a nice rowhouse off Frick Park. We’d made the…

The Use of Black English in Literature

Evelyn Amuedo Wade     The use of dialect in literature has always generated comment as well as speculation on the part of students and scholars alike. Certain authors have been considered masters of the art and, indeed, dialectologists have, for many years, studied the various facets of the use of dialect in literature. How…

After 9 Days of Cold Rain, Anything Blooming Trampled

Lyn Lifshin   “Still west,” you write, “with a PO in Hell.” A jolt, like the wild pear exploding hours after Sunday snow. White crystals, white petals. “On   the tip of the spear” you said. “Hard to unplug, wired for weeks, dreams like war games.” The green of your words out jades the geranium.…