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Issue 42

Spring 2026

Poetry & Short Prose

My New Doctor Asks Me If I’ve Ever Used Tobacco Products
Barlow Adams

Grace: First Date in Ruby & Meryl: First Date in Pink and Rose
Lake Angela

The Lafitte, Treme
Clare Bayard

Lake Catherine, Dusk
Jack B. Bedell

In a Hard Year, I Watch My Son Pretend to Drown
Rebecca Brock

Questions for Wood Frogs Awakening After Winter
Hollie Dugas

Emma at First Base
Robert Fillman

One Arm Links with the Arm of Memory
Hayley Mitchell Haugen

Risen
Mary Beth Hines

A Code for These Times
Margaret Anne Kean

Face Timing with My Dying Father
Candice M. Kelsey

Swimming Lesson
Hoon Kim

The Dream of Afong Moy
Isabel Cristina Legarda

Double Tongue
Cam McGlynn

Cherrywood
Hannah Cole Orsag

My mother tries a hand at poetry—
Ayesha Owais

Bird Church
Emily Patterson

At My Aunt’s Funeral, I Read in Her High School Senior Yearbook That She Hated Clichés, So I Decided to Take an Overused Phrase from the Service and Tell You a Story About Her
Casey Reiland

Running Hot
Casey Schreiner

This body I have tried to map,
Rowan Tate

Lost Count
Jenna Villforth Veazey

Bystander
Ann Weil

Five Cinquain on the Contest Between Songbirds and Our Shrines to Glass and Light
Dick Westheimer

This Dark and Quiet House
Rodd Whelpley

Pedagogy

Poetry, Discussion Boards, and Inter-Subjective Space
Angelo J. Letizia

Using Microfiction with a Nonsense Word to Teach Maneuvering in Uncertainty
Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

Reviews

The Sweetness in the Sour: A Review of Moon as Salted Lemon by Clayre Benzadón
Alex Carrigan

Ode to Everything: A Review of Seeing Things: Poems by Marjorie Maddox
Judy Kronenfeld

Interview

Good Vibes & Dark History: An Interview with Laura Toland
Swetha Amit