The Summer 2022 issue of Whale Road Review is full of family: the best abuelita, the actor father, the young daughter drawing a dinosaur during church, the sick brother, the breastfeeding mother and newborn, the parents who had lives before they were parents, and more. This issue includes a pet rock, Barbie, Monopoly, karate lessons, animals, road trips, a Disney vacation, addiction, guilt, and other family accessories too.
Issue 27 features poetry and short prose by Farah Barqawi, Rebecca Brock, Dustin Brookshire, Patricia Caspers, Leigh Chadwick, Flower Conroy, Jennifer H. Dracos-Tice, Sara Elkamel, Robert Fillman, H.E. Fisher, Molly Greer, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Bill Hollands, Andrea Lynn Koohi, Suzanne Langlois, Mitchell Nobis, Rebecca O’Bern, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Eric Scot Tryon, Kristin Van Tassel, Ann Weil, and Lucy Zhang.
Angelo J. Letizia’s pedagogy paper shares an assignment that invites students to use poetry to explore concepts from other disciplines. Michele Bombardier, Leila Lois, and Michelle McMillan-Holifield review new poetry collections by Eunice Andrada, Ama Codjoe, and Brooke Matson, and Natalie Serianni offers a fascinating interview with Jennifer Fliss about her recent short story collection, The Predatory Animal Ball.
We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we do. Please share the pieces you love, tip the authors who have “Tip the Author” links under their bios, and send us your own creative work during our June reading period if you’re a writer too. Thanks for reading!
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief