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2025 Best of the Net Nominations

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We are incredibly excited to announce South Broadway Press‘ 2025 Best of the Net nominations! Please join us in celebrating these wonderful poets.

The Best of the Net is an annual anthology that honors small press literature that was first published online. The anthology is published by Sundress Publications and is open to submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Best of the Net Nominees

FROM SOUTH BROADWAY GHOST SOCIETY // SUMMER 2025 EDITION

they say the rice won’t grow without blood

BY SREEJA NASKAR

A Chorus of Mourning Echoing Out Toward Mecca

BY TED VACA

Underbrush

BY SARA WHITTEMORE

Cherry Picking in Washington D.C.

BY AMY WRAY IRISH

Geranium

BY ASPEN EVERETT

Underbrush | Sara Whittemore

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Underbrush

BY SARA WHITTEMORE

I have watched the figs
ripen for centuries

I have stolen the dandelions
scattered their seeds across

fields of tulips and tamarind
I have felt desire crack

my lips apart under the weight
of its slippery skin

What fresh figs, what sunny flowers
What breaking hearts

rot beneath the hills
beneath sticky sidewalk pavements

We grow older but not duller
hovering translucent over

calendar time

Sara Whittemore is a poet living in Houston, Texas. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa. Her work has recently appeared in Interim Magazine, Juniper Press and Tiny Spoon, and others. In addition to being a poet she is an artist, alien and cat person. You can find her on instagram @sarafromsaturn.