Sheila-Na-Gig online 2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Hello, Friends of Sheila-Na-Gig online,

After publishing so many wonderful poems throughout the year, it’s an insanely difficult task to choose just SIX to nominate for the Best of the Net Anthology! My nominations are below. Best of luck to the nominees, and many thanks to ALL the poets who’ve helped make Sheila-Na-Gig online everything I knew it could be !

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.1, Fall 2017
“Given the Day” by Phill Provance
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-1-fall-2017-the-poets/phill-provance/

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.2, Winter 2017
“God Moves in” by Lachlan Brooks;
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-2-winter-2017-the-poets/lachlan-brooks

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.2, Winter 2017
“The Exhaustion of Relentless Caring” by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-2-winter-2017-the-poets/carol-lynn-stevenson-grellas/

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.3, Spring 2018
“White Reindeer’s Skull in the Sky” by Vivian Faith Prescott
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-3-spring-2018-the-poets/spring-2018-poetry-contest-winner-vivian-faith-prescott/

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.4, Summer 2018
“Where Do You Go Between Breaths?” by Ace Boggess
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-4-summer-2018-the-poets/ace-boggess/

From Sheila-Na-Gig online Volume 2.4, Summer 2018
“How Grief Keeps Pace” by Mercedes Lawry
https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-2-4-summer-2018-the-poets/mercedes-lawry/

About Grimmgirl

I co-founded the small press poetry magazine Sheila-Na-Gig in California in 1990. I ran the press for 10 years, producing 14 print copies of the journal. I now hold a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. I am currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where I teach courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. My poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Brock Review, Proteus, Rattle, Spillway, and the critical anthologies, The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror.

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