Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”). I’m leaving soon to meet up with dear friends in Paris (“…rain, the end of a baguette, the spine / of a book, and you in a long wool coat.” – Janine Certo, “Jetlag, Paris”). This is such a special issue, and I suspect many more people will find themselves being read by these pieces too.
Issue 39 features poetry and short prose by Chelsea Catherine, Janine Certo, Geraldine Connolly, Karla Daly, Lisa Dordal, Denise Duhamel, Beth Gylys, Dustin Brookshire, Julie Ebin, Marissa Glover, Kelle Groom, Ashley Hajimirsadeghi, Karen Kilcup, Edward Lees, Jane Muschenetz, Charlene Pierce, Emily Rose Proctor, Susanna Rich, Beth Sherman, Adam Spiegelman, Donna Vorreyer, Makayla Wamboldt, and Melissent Zumwalt.
In pedagogy, Jen Hirt brings us a timely and much-needed example of modeling the writing process rather than integrating AI.
Thanks to Miriam Calleja, Kevin Densley, Raphael Kosek, Gloria Monaghan, and Mary Ellen Talley, this issue contains thoughtful reviews of recent books by Julia Kolchinsky, James Roderick Burns, Lucia Cherciu, Eileen Cleary, and Annette Sisson. We’ve also got interviews with Allison Pitinii Davis and Anand Thakore thanks to the excellent work of Molly Mayhead and Lili Newberry.
Please make a writer’s day and send a little something (or a lot) using the Tip the Author links below many of the bios. As ever, thank you for reading!
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief
P.S. We’re now open for submissions from June 1-15. Check out our guidelines and send some work our way!
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