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2026
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cover art by Roger Camp
Issue #72

Issue Illustrator | Josephine Florens

Poetry:
Oliver Brooks | Tiresias on a Smoke Break
Nicole Dufalla | night shift lullaby
Anya Kirshbaum | I tell her
Meia Geddes | A Brief Song
Angie Macri | The Thorns on the Hill Gave the Hill Its Name
Angelique Zobitz | Mother of What's Left
Aditi Bhattacharjee 
| Five Year Plan
Alex Turissini | The Oak Tree and the Wind
Pamela Manché Pearce
 | Aubade
Natalie Zhang | Ornithology
Kelli Dianne Rule | The tomatoes had gone
Emma Bolden | Contemporary History


Art:
Irina Greciuhina
Asem Moustafa Ahmed
Ann Wong


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Issue #73

Issue Illustrator | Leslie Lindsay

Poetry:
David Eileen |
Proofs
Cherry Cheesman | Things I Forget to Leave in My Purse
Darren C. Demaree | Emily as Hands and Eyes and Emily as Vanity and Commerce
Weston Leo Richey | Cloud Number 9
Anthony Frame |  ̶P̶o̶e̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶W̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶d̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶V̶i̶s̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶M̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶D̶r̶e̶a̶m̶  All My Heroes Turned Out to Be Creeps
Mrityunjay Mohan | Birds Blue Birds
Mervyn Seivwright | An Echoing Deduction
Dean Bartoli Smith| Encounters
Eliza Fixler | For better, for worse

 
Interviews:

Len Lawson | New Names for Stars 
Rachel Nix | I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore

Album Review:
The Myth of Water: Go Into Your Life​
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