Issue 36: Spring 2026

Featured Artists (clockwise, from top left): Stephanie Maru Flood, Jim Ross, Beth Kephart, Livia Meneghin, Ira Joel Haber

Welcome to Spring 2026!

Photo by Natasha Komoda

Featured Poet: Mary Ardery

Emily Banks

Citizenship by Descent

Infinity Pool

Leila Bloomingdale

On Hiding Behind a Stack of Books in My Bedside Table

Dolo Diaz

The Stain of Canned-peach Syrup in My Father’s Pajamas

J. M. Emery

Spring Serenade

Escape Upsidedown

Featured Artist: Stephanie Maru Flood

Anthony Frame

What If? Tony

Cal Freeman

A Woman on a Green Front Porch

George Kalamaras

Three a.m. Train, Hoarse in My Throat

Claire Jean Kim

Nony & the Finch

Featured Artist: Beth Kephart

Ben Kline

Thorns

Euphemism

Natalie Marino

Capitalism as Protagonist or Heart of Darkness

Michael Montlack

Bubble Gum

Eugenio at the start, 5

Featured Artist: Livia Meneghin

Lisa Mottolo

I Spent a Night Sitting in a Church

Ókólí  Stephen Nonso

Onyinye

Kara Olson

Power in Softness

flowers, stripes, and circles 2020

Featured Artist: Ira Joel Haber

Katherine Oung

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

Love Poem With and Without

Vaishnavi Pusapati

The River in the Wall

The Borrowing

Brendan Stephens

Fixation: Estate Sales

Fixation: My Autism Diagnosis

Texting behind a screen of tulips

Featured Artist: Jim Ross

Disha Trivedi

The Lonely

Conversations on Grief, III

July Westhale

[Before seeing the roadrunner pluck]

[through the open window something says come on be serious]

Amanda Auchter Reviews Rebecca Hart Olander’s Singing From the Deep End

Josh A. Brewer Reviews Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.