Spring 2026: Volume 73, Number 1
FICTION
My Brother by Amir Ahmadi Arian
The Joke by Brock Clarke
Roadkill by Ana Emilia Felker (translated by Daniel Peña)
Little Treasures by Angela Hui
Submitting to Ploughshares While Listening to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot by Aidan O’Brien
The Junior Professor by Adam O’Fallon Price
Don’t Wait by Josh Russell
Bestiary – V (Mothers) (general topography of a desolate soul, a traveller, Lady Cockroach and Little Annie, Bad Monkey, Old Walrus, Mr. Cockatoo, Old Iguana, Rico) by Tiago Sousa
Soul Scanner Opportunities Available! Get Paid While You Learn in 6-Week Training Period! Competitive Rates! Apply Now! by Stacie Turner
Killer Rack by Tanya Žilinskas
ESSAYS
Engram by Kimberly Grey
Fitting In by Tom McAllister
I Must Be Gone by Claire Polders
POETRY
Athens by D.M. Aderibigbe
from Revolt: A Yoruba Abecedarian (K) and (F) by Hussain Ahmed
Hermit Island by Jill Barrie
Fairy Tale by Alexandra Bernhardt (translated by Hannah V. Warren)
Temple Children by Shlagha Borah
Tarot by TR Brady
Bachelorette party and A Little Scared Most of the Time by Hedgie Choi
April Prayer and For Lisa’s Friends by Kami Enzie
Boy in the Field [Nothing is Gone] by David Ehmcke
Elephant Blues by Rigoberto González
Lovers’ Quarrel by Kaley Hutter
Wooded Hollows by Rebecca Lilly
from The Garden of the Dead by Marie Lundquist (translated by Miriam Åkervall)
Warming Tree, BATTLEGROUND—SongKyungRyun’s First Report re: KangMingMing, and BATTLEGROUND—Playing @ the Afterlife by Moon Boyoung (translated by Dabin Jeong, Hedgie Choi, and Jack Saebyok Jung)
"Navigation Through The Ages" at the National Air and Space Museum by Carl Moon
Calling and Zigzag by Robert Morgan
From the Sequence "The Aspects of a Place," VI by Oscar Oswald
Chicken Scratch by Derek N. Otsuji
Emancipation Half-Sonnet and Foster Half-Sonnet by Stella Wong
Memory about a Bike Chain by Yu Hongjun (translated by Hedgie Choi)
Reading Ross Gay in the Cubicle of Legal Aid by Christian Yeo Xuan
Neurosis and The Simple Things by Teodozia Zarivna (translated by Leora Thornton)
COVER
25/11/24, 2024, multimedia, A4, by Maxim Peter Griffin