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| Best of the Net Cover Image by Rhonda Lott. |
“2 fat black women are making love,” by
Saida Agostini
"Customer Service Is," by Sandra Beasley
“To the Black Virgin Mary on a Steeple in Greensburg, PA,” by Destiny Birdsong
"Customer Service Is," by Sandra Beasley
“To the Black Virgin Mary on a Steeple in Greensburg, PA,” by Destiny Birdsong
“This Is What Makes Us Worlds,” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
"Loving the Enemy," by Caits Meissner
“The Santa Ana,” by Paul Tran
It is always a pleasure for the staff
and guest curators at Split This Rock to discover fresh poems, and an honor to
be their first home. From June of 2017 through July of 2018, twenty-nine Poems
of the Week came to us as first publications. During that period, poems were
curated by special guest curator, Teri Cross Davis, and staff members Sarah
Browning, Camisha L. Jones, and M.F. Simone Roberts.
The nominated poems are among over 500 poems published in The Quarry. Poems featured in The Quarry were originally published in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week series or were winners of Split This Rock’s Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest; winners of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism, co-sponsored by the CrossCurrents Foundation; or the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest (until 2017, sponsored by the Abortion Care Network). Some of the poets have featured at Split This Rock’s biennial poetry festival and/or Sunday Kind of Love reading and open mic series. Other poems arrive via open calls and/or are by members of the national Split This Rock community, Split This Rock teaching artists, members of the DC Youth Slam Team, and more.
Of their contest and anthology, Sundress
Publications says the, “Best
of the Net Anthology continues to promote the
diverse and growing collection of voices who are publishing their work online,
a venue that continues to see less respect from such yearly anthologies as the
Pushcart and Best American series. This anthology serves to bring greater
respect to an innovative and continually expanding medium in the same medium in
which it is published.”
Split This Rock is grateful for their
work! We wish the poetry judge and all the staff happy reading!
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| The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database |
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