Issue 23
September 2026
“Landscape” by Tony Leuzzi
Featured Poet: Michael J. Kolb
Bio
Interview
folded wrong
False Alarm
Prognosis
Falling Just Enough
A Numbers Game
The Yellowing
Going Under
Omen
shards
Featured Artist: Tony Leuzzi
Bio
Artist Statement
Improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation
Poetry
Lauren Adkins
A Koi Pond as the American Dream
Morphology of Belonging
Louis Bourgeois
Hymn for Kora
Karen Bramblett
Red Pane
Mikha'El Dan
small rain, cold rocks
summer sunset
Laura Denny
Dormancy
j. emmy
The Persistence of Semblance
Laura Falsetti
On Becoming a Hydrangea
All the Other Swans
Don Farrell
This Winter
we can only watch...we don’t shoot the wounded
Madelyn Garner
Of Memory
Peter Grandbois
Opening
Dear Silence
Tytti Heikkinen
Non-Uniform Truth of Language
Eric Huff
The Goldfinch
Water Strider
Elizabeth D. Jennings
Ode to the Little Pocket Mice Onboard the Apollo 17 Command Module
the news called it a 5.3
Ruhi Jiwani
The Horse on the Beach
Matthew Johnson
Harlem at Dusk (End of the Renaissance)
Stephanie Jones
Nightlight Song
Barrier II
Stephen Kampa
Expanding Gases Fill the Available Space
Yana Kane
Now You
Gabrielle Langley
Lidocaine Needle
Dröbnitz Girl
Edward Lineberry
Between Strike and Smoke
Andrew Maxwell
in rainlight
antithesis
from hermetic stanzas (viii-x)
invocation
annihilation
Melanie Perish
Brother as Pair of Broken Glasses
After a Radio Interview with Recent Immigrants
Paulann Petersen
Seven Truths from The Realm of Symbol
Darius Phelps
Boy from Hawai'i
Exegesis of the Cardinal
You Brought the Ocean
Amy Riddell
Inheritance
Attachment Theory
Ibrar Sami
The Dust-Covered Door
John Schneider
Vespertine
Sushanth Shyamsundar
The Body Declines to Clarify
Shahalam Tariq
A Certain Hue
Rex Tee
The Last Voicemail
Holly Thompson
Exhibit B
Pinocchio
Trevor Tingle
Indulgence is the Right Hand of Entropy
Natalie A. Walker
Reborn
Elizabeth Wee
Afterimage
Jane Wiseman
is this is that is then
Interior with View from a South-Facing Window
Ava Ye
Pennsylvania Declaration
Joy Yin
suburbia
Hanyi Zhou
Astronomy Lesson
Reviews and Interviews
Willie James reviews No Lace Fronts in Iowa City by Meghan Malachi
