Spring 2026
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
| Caroline Langston
Poetry
The Temple | Andreas Fleps
Unfaithful | Randy Koch
Hymn (3) | E. R. Skulmoski
The Spatter of Waterfalls | Joshua Coben
The Other Life | Daniel Thomas
Moving Day | Brian G. Phipps
Survivor’s guilt | Mary Lanham
Variations on Mercy | Lindsey Weishar
Can and Bottle Man | Skip Renker
Where's that boat going? & We are wearing history heavy like a raincoat | Caleb Horowitz
Gravel at Every Turn & Oceans of Salty Sky | Annette Sisson
Blind-Vein | David Anson Lee
Awkwardness | Arthur McMaster
Great and Holy Monday | Marci Rae Johnson
Nonfiction
Cinctura | Jeffrey-Michael Kane
Cloud Study | Daniel Cooperrider
Visual Arts
Thresholds | Chen Wenwei
The Needle’s Pierce | Maura H. Harrison
Poetics of the Discarded | Lori Goldberg
Interview
in Conversation with Christopher Honey
Reviews
The Still-ness of Space | Jessica Hudson
A Review of Lost Cities by Valencia Robin
Permeable Devotion | Darius Stewart
A Review of The Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly
“There is a world just inside this one” | Robiny Jamerson
A Review of Wonderstudies by David Bailey
Contemplative Practices
My Writing Meditation | Pico Iyer
Found Poetry as Spiritual Practice | Christine Hiester
Cover Art: Lori Goldberg. Orto Series 1, 2025. Acrylic ink and fluids on watercolor paper. 18 x 24 inches.
The Still-ness of Space
A Review of Lost Cities by Valencia Robin
by Jessica Hudson
In her lyric hybrid collection Quiet Night Think, Gillian Sze shares William Carlos Williams’ definition of a poem as “a thing made up of . . . words and the spaces between them,” and asks, “What is this space that poetry offers?”
“There is a world just inside this one”
A Review of Wonderstudies by David Bailey (Mount Vision Press, 2025)
by Robiny Jamerson
For a poetry collection that occurs primarily along dirt paths, dead-still Sierran hillsides, and campfires, Wonderstudies by David Bailey is anything but solitary.