Nominations for Best of the Net 2024

As usual, thank you to all the contributors to *82 Review. I always have a hard time deciding, but please know I love you all! Here are the nominations from Star 82 Review (and links to the works) for Best of the Net from 2022-2023, issues 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, and 11.2. Good luck!

The faucet is leaking dear by Jessie Lian

Goodbye by Ivars Balkits

Prison Poetry Reading by Paul Hostovsky

The Lost and Found by Peter Cherches

Experiment 6.13.22 by Jessica Hsu

The Sea Speaks by Royal Rhodes

Chrysalises by Amy Marques

Meditations in the Center of a Maelstrom by Leslie Benigni

Live Wire by Mark Foss

Our Last Summer in Santa Cruz by Deepti Nalavade Mahule

Baby Elephant by Kay Bradner

Singe by Kristina Nobleman

Spadefoot Spasm by Lauren Ari

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