Best of the Net 2017

Again this year, The Five-Two will enter Sundress Publications' Best of the Net competition. I am allowed to submit six of the poems that appeared here July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. Every poem I publish is my favorite in some way, so I leave it Five-Two readers to determine three of the six picks.

From 10:30 a.m. July 15 to 10:30 a.m. July 21, the five poems below received the highest combined number of blog comments, Twitter retweets, and Twitter likes. Three tied for third place, so I extended readers' say to five picks and made one of my own:

• Kimo Armitage, "Nuclear Gift..."
• Aja Beech, "Borders"
• Amy Holman, "I'm a Rabbit Girl"
• Karen Petersen, "The Last Battle"
• David Rachels, "Costume"
• Sara Tantlinger, "Dangerous Honesties"

Thanks, everyone, for participating. Congratulations and good luck to the poets.