Otto Penzler has selected Kathleen Ford’s “Man on the Run” 31.4 for Best American Mystery Stories 2012.

For Best American Poetry 2012, Mark Doty has chosen four NER poems:

• Amy Glynn Greacen, Helianthus Annus (Sunflower) (32.2)
• Reginald Dwayne Betts, “At the End of a Life, a Secret” (31.4)
• James Allen Hall, “One Train’s Survival Depends on the Other Derailed” (32.2)
• Natasha Trethewey, “Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on Dissecting the White Negro, 1851” (32.3)