Accents Publishing is happy to announce our recent nominations for the Best of the Net.  Poems were selected from the Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge 2015.

• “Murder my Machismo” by Alex Simand
  • Alex Simand tells himself he is a writer daily, though he works full time as an engineer in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Mud Season Review, Red Fez, Ash & Bones, among others. He is currently working on his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Alex writes about love, hate, cultural otherness, and fantasies between strangers. His left brain and his right brain are warring factions.
• “the maternity ward” by Serena Devi
  • Serena Devi is in the SCAPA Literary Arts program at Lafayette High School. She dyes her hair a lot and watches too much reality TV.
• “wreck: a noun” by Jeremy Paden
  • Jeremy Paden is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. His poems and translations have appeared in various journals and anthologies. He is the author of Broken Tulips, a chapbook of poems.
• “I Saw the Frank in Hank and Then  I Set Him Free” by Nettie Farris
  • Nettie Farris is the author of Communion, from Accents Publishing. Her chapbook, Fat Crayons, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. In her spare time, she writes poems, practices yoga, attends mass, prays the rosary, and, like Alice, goes to tea parties.
• “Just Before” by Whitney Baker
• “What I Think When You are the shoulder I Lean On” by Eduardo Ballestero
  • Eduardo Ballestero was born in San Carlos, Costa Rica and grew up in Kentucky. He has a BA in English from the University of Kentucky and lives and works in Lexington. He is at work on a collection of persona poems.