Poetry Breakfast is thrilled to announce our nominees for this years Best of the Net.
Congratulations to:
Gabriel Muoio for “Mother’s Glasses”
Mark J. Mitchell for “An Aging Goddess Starts Her Day”
Laurie Kuntz for “Self Portrait”
Tricia McCallum for “Just for Today.”
Ekta Somera for “yellow paint”
Max Reif for “College”
After carefully reviewing all the delicious poems we’ve served up this past year, our decisions are in.
We’re happy to present Poetry Breakfast’s nominations for the 2017 Best of the Net.
this is how you remember high school By Archita Mittra
“Yume Wo Katare” (Tell your dream) By Marjorie Thomsen
Clean Your Room (a conversation with Mental Illness) By Lisa Zaran
Fractured Peonies By Belinda Subraman
I Fumbled in the Darkness for My Wings By Carolyn Adams
Seashell By Kristen Zory King
Congratulations and the best of luck with your nominations!
It was a daunting task to select just six poems. But after carefully reviewing all the wonderful poems we’ve had the honor of publishing, we finally made our selection for this year’s Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Our congratulations to all six amazing poets. Poetry Breakfast is grateful to all of you for letting your work find a home on our menu.
Our Pushcart Prize Nominations for this year are as follows:
“Funeral Sandwiches” by Tricia McCallum
“Consigning Mother’s Ring” by Barbara Saxton
“Only” by Pamela Joyce Shapiro
“Learning Again” by Emily Rose Proctor
“Why I Still Have Hope for Humanity” by Ryan Warren
“Reduced” by Marjorie Thomsen
We wish the best of luck to all our nominees.
Poetry Breakfast would like to congratulate the following poets. Though it was difficult for us to choose only six poems to nominate for the Best of the Net Award, we narrowed it down to these:
Birthday Present by Joan McNerney
By the Time I Got to Dublin by Carter Vance
Gray River by Patricia Biela
Jazz Kahuna by Max Reif
Knots by Nate Maye
The Problem with California by Maggie Rosen
Congratulations!
Photo by Benjamin Balazs.
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