Issue 61 will release in print on May 7, 2026.

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Cover art: Nuala McEvoy

Creative Nonfiction

• “Golden Joinery” – Karen McGee
• “Bullfrog” – Melissa Foley-King
• “Wagtail” – Jennifer Harvey
• “Tables Where There Were None” – Clayton Eccard
• “A Lesson in Crow” – Joy DiMenna
• “On the Steps” – Thaddeus Rutkowski
• “Glimpse” – David Pizzuro
• “Domestic Sentences” – Bill Neumire
• “Classroom Map” – Rachel Eisler
• “Wolf Talks at Granite Mountain Lookout” – Grace Schwenk

Fiction

• “First Prepare a Freshwater Fish of Your Choosing” – Lucie Bhisitkul
• “Date Night” – Christine Naprava
• “Compatible Talents” – Arno Bohlmeijer
• “Wake” – Franz Jørgen Neumann
• “When the Sink Went Quiet, Nothing Got Clean” – Mira Yousif Almazrouei 
• “Aberration” – Thomas Dettling
• “Ruptures” – Thomas Lowery
• “I Like Whatever’s Wrong with You” – Elizabeth Murphy
• “Little Hatchling” – Lauren Mirzakhalili
• “Cat Call” – Lauren Mirzakhalili
• “The Book in His Hands” – Scott Carroll

Poetry

• “Fitness Dudes” + “Black History Month” – Benjamin Goluboff
• “Our Best Game” – Kate Miano
• “My Mother Was Bees” + “I’m devastated I’m fine I’m fine” – Ewen Glass
• “my grandmother died before the earth got warm” + “what is 30% literacy” – Isabella Simões
• “Archival Study” + “Sea’s Improvisation” + “Cotton Blues” – Jianqing Zheng
• “Wildlife Documentary” + “Pain is a Flock of Crows” – Christa Fairbrother
• “Synecdoche” – Allison Burris
• “Vohkehc” – J. S. Coursey
• “The Producer, 1937” + “Dubbed, 1946” – Kimberly Ann Priest
• “Oprah Hides Solitude Under the Seats” – Joshua Zeitler
• “November’s Tanka” – John Sweeney
• “Nothing Medal” – Joy Yin
• “Chicago, Landing” – Nathaniel Brame
• “Every step required an apology, but my deodorant was working” – Prasida Clare Newman
• “This one ends in a box in the attic” + “This one ends in the sky is falling” – Sam Campbell
• “The Day She Stopped Wearing Mascara” – Sara Ries Dziekonski
• “The Women in my Family” – Kendra Whitfield
• “sonnet for shorter days” – nat raum
• “I Ask” – Ghazal Azad Jahan
• “Our Ladle Broke This Morning” – Mel Edden

Art

• “Leash” + “Thunder and Lightning” – JC Henderson
• “Love is in the air” + “Market in the Cathedral Square” + “Six Angels” – Nuala McEvoy
• “Triplicate She Lives” + “Offering” – Anna Kirby
• “Pieces” – Beth Horton
• “Doodle 2” – Serge Lecompte
• “The Scream” + “Anger” – RUNA
• “Horse Tapestry in Greece” – Susan Laugen
• “The Cloud People” – Joy DiMenna
• “Tomahawk” – Carlos Duplá
• “Untitled” – Richard Hanus
• “Phillippine Orchid” – Jim Ross
• “Ain’t No Tunnel Long Enough for Light” – Vishaal Pathak