Fiction
Justin Taroli How Boys Use Lipstick
Steven Witzel Longlater, What You Love Remains
Rebecca Makkai Zamboni
Ashni Math Monsoon Worms
Vincent Perrone A House Built Out of Color
Flora Beagley Ryijy
Elliott Gish Gravid
Creative Nonfiction
Madison Ellingsworth Eli and l
Elizabeth Bales Frank VELVET FREEZE
Ericka Russell Controlled Substance
Ari Ketzal CartographicErrors While Mapping the Midwestern Fall Line
Borders & Border Crossings Theme
Jill Barrie Tulips
Migwi Mwangi FORMJ-589
Paul Hostovsky Story of a House
Paul Hostovsky Geometry
Rose DeMaris Bud Union
Brice Maiurro the soil of me
Zeke Shomler Before l was a man
Dylan Tran My Father's Boat
Andy Young surviving a hurricane in a time of genocide
Lucy Griffith Ocotillo Watching
Aida Zilelian Arakel, 1979
Poetry
John Muellner MISSTEPS
Jennifer Franklin To Sylvia Plath in Summer
Alex Vigue Ode to Mountain Dew Arranged by Colorin the Order of the Original Pride Flag
Tim Stobierski Bootlicker
Looking for
Sean Thomas Dougherty Golden Shovel of the Parting Glass (for KN)
Wendy Wisner Dream Baby
Christian Paulisich The Bison
D Anson Lee Oil-Rig Prayer
Sharon Du True Love
Hannah Corrie I'm Done with Winter
J.L. Chen Crossing
Nathan Fako American Revelation
D Anson Lee Prayer of the Becoming Willow
Orchid Tierney dear dr. Williams: the mental hospital garden
Schyler Butler Girl Prays to Grandmother with an Open Mouth
Monica Gomery ARTIST OF THE DEEP
WRITE ME A LIGHT POEM, AS IN STARLIGHT
THE ORIGINS OF SLOWING DOWN
John Carmen Harper A Sonnet About Journalists
Ezra Fox WHAT THE DARKNESS RENDERS ON THE QUESTION OF PASSING
Natalia Martinez Selective Hearing
John Kuligowski Being, Unhoused Near ABQ
Christien Gholson Matter
Ghosts
Erica Hom The white gaze makes a vivisection of me
Cam McGlynn Sweeping
Alyssandra Tobin Day 2 of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy: Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit
Eileen Pettycrew Emergency letter to Walt Whitman
Richard Foerster Alex
Amanda Turner THROUGH WHICH KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS PASS
Catherine Jade Grandorff Body Remembered
Art and Interviews
Denis Sarazhin The Dancing Men No. 8
Denis Sarazhin Sleepwalker
Denis Sarazhin Sleepless
Denis Sarazhin Pantomime No. 22
Denis Sarazhin On a Ram
Denis Sarazhin Pantomime No. 14
Denis Sarazhin Foreign Tales
Denis Sarazhin Chimera's Embrace
Interview with Denis Sarazhin
Interview with Rebecca Makkai
Interview with Mónica Gomery
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SPRING 2026, VOLUME 17
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