We are thrilled to announce that we have nominated four poems for the 2013 Best of the Net anthology. It was an exceedingly difficult decision because we have received so many outstanding poems since the journal’s inception. In the end, we selected the following:

• Christopher Howell’s “The Life Boat Dream”
• Tammy Robacker’s “Owen Beach Aubade”
• Judith Skillman’s “Starlings” and “Watercress”