Best of the Net 2023 Selection

As editor of The Five-Two, I get to choose six poems published July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 for Best of the Net 2023 consideration. Since every poem I publish is one of my favorites, I like to give The Five-Two's audience three of the six picks:

• You can vote by commenting on a poem's post or Liking its YouTube video.
• Your comment can be feedback on the poem or just "Best of the Net 2023."
• Deadline: The three poems receiving the most comments and Likes by Wednesday, September 14, 2022 will be submitted along with my three picks.

Here are the six nominations submitted September 29, 2022:

• "How to Make a Whale..." by Amy Holman (August 9, 2021)
• "Susan Smith's Dream" by Sally Weston Ziph (September 13, 2021)
• "The Devil Has Gone Home" by Sharon Waller Knutson (November 22, 2021)
• "Unresolved Story..." by Saira Viola (January 10, 2022)
• "Conversion" by Pamela Hobart Carter (May 16, 2022)
• "Her Shadow" by Kelly Sargent (June 20, 2022)

The complete anthology contents will be announced by the end of January 2023. Good luck to all.