Issue 35: Winter 2026

Featured artists (clockwise from top left): Joshua Johnston, David Sheskin, Sandra Simonds, Laura Wetherington, and Jen Jabaily-Blackburn.

Welcome to Winter 2026

Featured Poet: Karen Kovacik

Danny Unger

Work Ethic Digression

Anthony Sutton

from Decorporeal

Sarvin Parviz

In The Palm Reader’s Tent

Flight PS752

Silent earth sonnet (for Varun Ravindran)

Featured Artist: Laura Wetherington

David Moolten

Botánica

Mickie Kennedy

Don’t Shoot The Messenger–

Claire Jean Kim

Sky Swept Clean of Stars

Featured Artist: David Sheskin

Beth Kanell

I’m Still Here

Alyssa Jewell

Report from the Earth

Angela Jackson-Brown

The Answer is “See”

Featured Artist: Sandra Simonds

Nazifa Islam

She Could Not Stifle Her Longing

Steve Henn

The Certified Land Loving Poet of Reverence Speaks

Kianna Greene

vacation in pismo beach, california

vacation in spring bay, illinois

Featured Artist: Joshua Johnston

Ronald Geigle

My Father Never Breathed

Nocturne

Sean Thomas Dougherty

The Mill Girl Fugue

Chelsea Dingman

If it is Not Only the Moment of the Event But the Passing Out of it That is Traumatic, Survival Itself Can Be a Crisis

Allisa Cherry

I Drive Around the Heartland

as a compliment

Featured Artist: Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

Allison P. Brown

Remedy for Text Neck

William Bonfiglio

Blankenhorn

Maureen Alsop

My Instruments Tell Me To Bury The Shovel

Ashley Mack-Jackson reviews The Book of Alice by Diamond Forde