Volume XLIV 1&2
Fiction
Laurie Blauner, “Are You Still There”
Daniel Cohen, “Yarn”
Gwen E. Kirby, “Wanda Wished”
Jennifer Pullen, “Faery Fruit: The Life of Christina Rossetti in Portraits both Real and Imagined”
Adam Kohut, “PROXY”
Kenton K. Yee, “Wormholing”
R. M. Cooper, “Difficult Conversations”
Schuyler Mitchell, “The Buffalo”
Mialise Carney, “The Leftover Girls”
Talitha Greaver, “The Waiting Woman”
William Woolfitt, “House Wrens”
Erik Moyer, “Bear in Mind”
Zachary Tyler Vickers, “The Ilk of Their Shrewdness”
Alexandra Wingo, “Angels in the Mississippi”
Thea Swanson, “Running Women”
Creative Nonfiction
Alexandra Teague, “The Archaic Torso of My Late 40s”
Meg Thompson, “Journal of Pain”
Emily Holmes, “A Case for Looking Directly into the Light”
Poems
Janet McNally, “Cartoon Universe”
Jenny Molberg, “Elaine by the Sea”
Monica Fields , “Rhode Island Swans”
David Thacker, “On contemplating how growing zones will shift with the climate”
Ayesha Raees, “Anaphora for”
Gaylord Brewer, “[What if I prefer, Mary, to no longer live in the world?]”
Benjamin S. Grossberg, Two Poems
Lex Orgera, “Treatments for Women”
Alyse Bensel, Two Poems
Yetta Rose Stein, “Letter Regarding My Apocalypse”
Charles Fort, “The Artist, Wilde, Forgot the Living Things”
Michael Derrick Hudson, “The Archaeologist Explains Things to the Mummy of Seti II”
Lillian Emerick Valentine, “Paraglossum”
Katy E. Ellis, “Cavities at the End of the Earth”
John A. Nieves, Two Poems
Scott Frey, “Subduction”
Jacob Sunderlin, “Amendment to the Pledge I Signed Promising to Not Promote Radical Theories about the Overthrow of the State While Teaching for the State”
Darla Himeles, “Jack”
Jason Tandon, “Reading the New Charles Simic Book I Was Saving for Vacation”
Daniel DeVaughn, “Orientation at the Alabama Department of Youth Services, Vacca Campus”
David Moolten, “Subversive”
Gary Young, Two Poems
Mark MacAllister, “Exophony”
Judy Halebsky, “PROOF. n./pruf/“
E. B. Schnepp, “dishonest in its petals,”
Kayla Pearce, Two Poems
Charlie Peck, “Shucks Fish House & Oyster Bar”
Daniel Bourne, “On Learning the Old Language [in the Country of Illinois]”
Rachel Mallalieu, “Entropy”
Danielle Pieratti, “Introduction to Dante”
Translations
Liliana Ponce, Two Poems, translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
Translation Chapbooks
Henri Meschonnic, Sentences Prolonged Through Our Erasures, translated from the French by Gabrielle Bedetti and Don Boes and Introduced by Gabriella Bedetti
Pavle Goranović, A Town No One Has Managed to Leave, Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth and Introduced by Will Firth and Tijana Rakočević
The 2025 and 2026 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Awards
Cela Xiè, “莫生 Only Absence, No Time”
Josiah Roberts, “To Shoulder the Weight”
Sophie Nunberg, “This Is Just to Say I Have Recommended the Last Book You Were Saving”
Selene Hofstetter, “atáchuush | ocean coast”
