Issue No. 40
— December 2025
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Mountain Air by Jessica Abughattas
- spacetraveller by Alishya Almeida
- A Question About Art by Derrick Austin
- from “Crown for What Has Kept Me” · Visitation by DeeSoul Carson
- Frankly Quite by Chen Chen
- a bowl of blackberries by Ali Choudhary
- Ensō by Will Cordeiro
- aurora borealis, three months after not killing myself by S.R. Ekstein
- Inherent Transgression by Elisa Gabbert
- Bloom by Richard Georges
- Patrilineation by Carlos Andrés Gómez
- morning moon by Maggie Graber
- Craft by Kelly Gray
- Brown by Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
- from Avenue by Chris Holdaway
- last day in Louisville by Edith Krone
- Genesis & by Ae Hee Lee
- Power Lines by Alex Lee
- Rabbit: An Ars Poetica by S.A. Leger
- Dream Sequence in the Information Economy · Stillness Interrupts Me by Hannah Lee Nahar
- Griefsong 2 by Robert Okaji
- Ghazal for a Disappearing Hutong by Juliana Pan
- First Spring by Sima Qunsol
- Birthright by Jessica Nirvana Ram
- Origins · December Reverie by Laura Ann Reed
- Kin by Carina Solis
- Pink Moon Armadillo by Francis Dylan Waguespack
- sunflower in woods by Najya A. Williams
- there is a place where plants will not grow by Tanaya Winder
Non-fiction
- The Summer After by Cole Pragides
- New Faith, Forgotten Soil by Kristen Millares Young
Fiction
- You Must Believe in Spring by Sam Reese
Features
- A Day in the Life of Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
- The Art of Roman Muradov
- Three Little Words by Eric Pankey
- An Interview with Richard Siken
Contributors