Spring 2026 (7:4) Kate Caraballo An Interview with Kate Garcia, author of Bartending for a Stamp with my Face on It KC: Would you mind sharing the origins of this chapbook and how the speaker developed as you drafted these poems? Are there any key locations, characters, or experiences you
Spring 2026 (7:4) Maria S. Picone An Interview with Jad Josey, author of Cast Your Longest Shadow MSP: The aesthetic of Cast Your Longest Shadow dwells in the interplay of light and darkness, with a strong wind element throughout, as seen in the cover, wind, and bird imagery. Of course,
Spring 2026 (7:4) Kate Garcia Bartending to Take Photos of the Fruit Buzz asks if he can take my picture for Facebook. He’s ordered too much food. I have a bit of a following he says. People like my reviews. Am I being reviewed? No, I just think
Spring 2026 (7:4) Jad Josey Letter to the Pacific The humpbacks have taken to the air— bodies untethered from gravity in an unexpected zenith—while messengers of light climb down from the clouds. The whales are traveling in the direction of my heart, guided by memory, by sound, by invisible
Spring 2026 (7:4) Zixuan Angel Xin Kissing in Nanjing I wrote “kissing in nanjing, december 1937” as a contemplation on how my maternal lineage warped and, most certainly, continues to shape how I wrestle with physical intimacy. In contrapuntal form, I refuse to erase the pain and suffering that the
Spring 2026 (7:4) Talan Tee They Said It Would Be Night I’ve always considered Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang exercises as something surreal, permeating an indifferent domestic lifestyle with the larger-than-life threat of invasion. I was inspired, most of all, by how the rehearsal of war has blurred the boundary between
Spring 2026 (7:4) Donna Vorreyer The Horse in Glaumbaer My husband and I had planned a summer trip to Iceland, never foreseeing the quick decline of my mother’s health. We didn’t imagine we would be taking the trip just a week or so after her funeral, and in every bit
Spring 2026 (7:4) Spencer Jewell The day the whale is beached This piece began as an experiment with caesuras in an undergraduate poetry course taught by the incredible Dr. Cori Winrock, who helped me procure the language to illustrate my tense, tangled, rich relationship to home. After reading an article
Spring 2026 (7:4) Leonardo Chung After-Rain North Wind, South of the Greenbelt In my poem “After-Rain North Wind, South of the Greenbelt,” I wanted to capture the moment after a storm when everything begins to settle. Some of the elements that I found characteristic of such a moment include wet
Spring 2026 (7:4) Hayley Clin Ego Death After a One Night Stand Transformation has, for me, always been an occasion of grief as much as of becoming. This poem is an elegy to that duality, to the ways we create and relinquish our sense of self, and to the sacred,
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