Spring 2026 Number 53
Cover art by Debora Greger
Featured Poet
Victoria Chang
- Head of a Girl
- Weeds
- Onement I
- Untitled, 1970
- My Mother's Teeth
- The Blue Dress
- The Clock
- To Age
- Fly
- The River of Bees
- Turning
- The Lovers
- The Gods
- Friendship, 1963
Lauren K. Watel
Dear V: Epistolary Responses to the Work of Victoria Chang
L. A. Johnson
Accepting the Poems for What They Are: An Interview with Victoria Chang
Featured Essay
Henry Hart, Seamus Heaney: From Belfast to Berkeley and Back
Read Online
- Rachel Hadas:
- Shane Seely: Gut
- Katie Chaple: Meditation of fragment—
- L. A. Johnson: Web Theory
- C. Dale Young: An Orchestration
- Jason Gordy Walker translating Rune Christiansen: The Next Day Was a Hailstorm
Contents
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Featured Poet
Lauren K. Watel
Dear V: Epistolary Responses to the Work of Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang
- Head of a Girl
- Weeds
- Onement I
- Untitled, 1970
- My Mother's Teeth
- The Blue Dress
- The Clock
- To Age
- Fly
- The River of Bees
- Turning
- The Lovers
- The Gods
- On a Clear Day, 1973
- Friendship, 1963
L. A. Johnson
Accepting the Poems for What They Are: An Interview with Victoria Chang
- Featured Essay
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Poems
- Amy Arthur
- Claret Ash
- Himalayan Blackberry
- Breathless
- Ned Balbo
- Wildfire Moon
- Octopus Dreams
- Gabrielle Bates
- Working Theory
- Bruce Bond
- Voicemail from a Passage in The Sun Also Rises
- Paul Bone
- On the Resemblance of the Horizon to a Bow
- Lucas Cardona
- The Romans
- The Only Surrealist in County
- Katie Chaple
- Here, there is only the history of the maples
- Meditation of fragment—
- Constantine Contogenis
- Drachmas for My Father
- Lisa Fay Coutley
- When My Adaptive Adolescent Refuses to Cry About a Goose, I Braid Pain's Many Threads
- In Omaha, New Year's is July 4th
- The Morning After C. Dale Young Reads a Poem
- Letter to Future Me with New Enemies
- How We Got Here
- Brian Czyzyk
- My Father Spots Snowy Owls
- Sean Thomas Dougherty
- Recipes for Things Not Food
- John Philip Drury
- Sestina on Six Words by Arnaut Daniel
- The Weightlessness of Numbers
- Midway on Our Life's Journey
- Ghazal for Bartleby the Scrivener
- Ghazal for a Pianist
- Anna Evas
- Snapping Turtle
- Amy Fleury
- What to Expect
- Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
- Studio Time
- Paulette Guerin
- At the Math Bee for Kindergarteners
- Family Trip
- Rachel Hadas
- Catherine Abbey Hodges
- Warm Rain
- Another Fire Poem
- E. Hughes
- To Let This Woman Love Me
- Deadheading Petunias
- Olivia Ivings
- A Silk Purse, a Sow's Ear
- L. A. Johnson
- Theory of the Far Away
- Web Theory
- Melanie Jordan
- It's Like That Famous Photo of Yoko and John
- Twenties
- Cate Lycurgus
- Disbelief
- Matt W. Miller
- No Tattoos
- Adam Moore
- Meditation on Gardeners' World
- Mary B. Moore
- Triangles
- Paper Birds
- Peter Munro
- Tidepool Sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus)
- Dan O'Brien
- Your Rescue
- Ekphrasis of the Beach
- Your Answer
- Ars Poetica
- Your Autopsy
- Emilia Phillips
- The Cellist and the Nightingale
- Disambiguation
- Supermarket in Rural Iceland
- Slant Rhyme
- Natura Morta
- John Poch
- My Favorite Church in Rome
- The Nose
- Chelsea Rathburn
- Broken Houses
- Tear-Down
- Kathryn Pratt Russell
- Two-Faced Saint at the High Museum
- Love Poem for Barn Owl
- Jane Satterfield
- Doomsday Fish
- Moon Child, or Divination with Two Decks
- What We Didn't See Coming
- Shane Seely
- Ralph Sneeden
- See You in September
- Contrapunctus
- Three Pigs
- Diane Thiel
- The Blind Spot
- Matthew Thorburn
- Wanting to Say
- William Trowbridge
- Lucky Them
- Seth Brady Tucker
- Disbelief in the Age of These Golden Towers
- Ryan Vine
- United Martial Arts
- The Cave
- Jason Gordy Walker translating Rune Christiansen
- The Next Day Was a Hailstorm
- Neste dag kom det en haglskur
- Something in Common with a Friend
- Noe i likhet med en venn
- Will Wellman
- Starlings
- C. Dale Young
FEATURED TRANSLATION
- Alexis Levitin translating Sonia Manzano
- Time, You Have Conquered Me
- Amy Arthur



