Spring 2026
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
Be Quiet Like the Tree | 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
The Language of Dance: Ballerina Dorothy A. Rogers-Walker
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 Needle’s Pierce
Maura H. Harrison
When I work on creating art quilts, I am focused on discovering that moment of wonder as explored through color and texture.
Poetics of the Discarded
by Lori Goldberg
My painterly gestures express a sense of randomness that mirrors the intricate chaos of the forest—a symphonic cacophony teeming with life, where mycelium and roots communicate to sustain it.
The Language of Dance: Ballerina Dorothy A. Rogers-Walker
Dorothy A. Rogers-Walker is a classically trained ballerina and the artistic director of St. Mark’s Dance Studio, where she has been a dedicated leader since 1983.
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?”
Permeable Devotion
A Review of The Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly (Graywolf Press, 2025)
by Darius Stewart
Reading Donika Kelly’s The Natural Order of Things is like inhabiting a house that has weathered a series of heavy storms—the windows are still intact, the floorboards are worn smooth from years of use, yet there is a calm, lamp-lit hush in every room.
“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.
My Writing Meditation
by Pico Iyer
Every morning—it’s been forty years now—I wake up early, often before first light shows through our windows, and make an eight-foot commute to our dining-table. Slowly, unfailingly, I prepare two pieces of toast and three cups of strong tea and consume them.
Found Poetry as Spiritual Practice
by Christine Hiester
I bring an unassuming pyrex glass dish of clipped words with me to workshops and retreats, the promise of revelation tucked beneath the delicate strips, and I delight in the inevitable surprise of the attendees when they find just what they need.