Fall 2026: Volume 73, Number 2
FICTION
Peacebone by Bryce Taylor
The Beetle Man by Evan Hannon
You Break Your Soul In Like New Shoes by Max Steiner
The Siblings by Ron Hansen
The Heirloom by Juliet Kahn
Sisters by Carol Cail
Veil by Elise LeSage
Rematch by Daniel Davis-Williams
Carp by Kathryn Holmstrom
Thy Plaintive Anthem Fades by Kevin Rickert
Snowflake Pinned to Your Bones by John Cotter
Love Affair by Anum Asi
Sight Gag by Suzanne Warren
Little Wow by Jeff Bond
Bullet Dodgers by Jason Ockert
Deep Time by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
ESSAYS
On Accepting Defeat by L.F. Khouri
Letter from Seattle by Suzanne Warren
A Sandhill Crane by Gerri Brightwell
Homework by Aaron Rabinowitz
POETRY
The Day Shift by Collin Callahan
It’s Bad Luck to Stand in the Doorway But I Did by Suphil Lee Park
Winnowed by Jessica Goodfellow
Insistence of Water by Lena Li
Urgency of Inheritance by Rachel Kulik
Balcony and Mayapples by Carolyn Oliver
Presidential Action: Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production by Hannah Ariesen
Mariam by L.F. Khouri
Postcolonial Elegy by Prosper Ifeanyi
tessellated earth by Micaela Kaibni Raen
Sepsis by Triin Paja
The quiet car and Erotic in which no fear collects by Anne Marie Rooney
Love Poem to My Belly by Stevie Edwards
Jars by Julie Choffel
COVER
Bowen Street, 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 40", by Blair Thornley