Issue 23
September 2026
“Untitled” by Tony Leuzzi
Poetry
Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey
“How to clear hyperpigmentation”
Julietta Bekker
Gaza
Michael Boccardo
Melancholia
I, Dorothy
Todd Campbell
Cataclysm
Robert Carr
Neglected Friendship
Vanessa Chen
My Driving Instructor Says I Need to Get Comfortable With the Curb
Mark DeCarteret
The Year We Went Without Winter
Nwodo Divine
Song of Trees
The girl
museum of fattened silence
Alex Fang
Arrival
Jason Fraley
Paper Trail XXXI
[Bare limbs crackle overhead. I]
[The messiah of missing song]
[The taxidermized night bulges, ramshackle,]
Jaiden Geolingo
Mothlight
Litany In 90 Degrees
London Gray
The Living Envy the Dead and the Dead Envy the Living
Anne Hall Levine
Shape Unseen
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Aphorisms
Hope Will Arrive as Rain
Stacey C. Johnson
i am trying to admit this grief
Claire Keyes
At Great White Sands, New Mexico
Suhjung Kim
In the scratching
Lindsay Li
Late Summer
val·i·da·tion
interim
Mother Ode (Suspiria)
fool’s gold
Svetlana Litvinchuk
If music is the sound between the notes IV
Natalie Marino
After the War
Jill McCabe Johnson
Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections
Scientists Confirm Interplanetary Dust Clouds Orbit Earth
Karen McPherson
Hippocampus
Joshua Merchant
On Time Traveling To Accept My Father’s Apology
Two Stack Mattress
The Table
The First Summer
Megan Mizanty
But earth is just
Don Pomerantz
Mountains Rise
RL Powell
Exhibition without the Museum
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Any building I would start to build here turns into a prison
Veronica Tucker
What the River Forgot to Tell Itself
On the Fifth Day, the Sky Refused to Translate
Borderless
Md Mujib Ullah
Mirage Dream-Sunshine
Kate Utt
Survival Training
Amelia Yuan
Next to the pool
Unpacking
Napalm girl
Michael Zendejas
In Tenochtitlan, Someone Told Me
Yan Zhang
Self Portrait as a Sifter
Reviews and Interviews
Jonathan Fletcher reviews Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark
Daniel Lassell reviews Nepenthe Radiant by Aimee Seu
Douglas W. Milliken reviews Paper Money by Winshen Liu
Ellen Stone reviews The Worry Dolls by Shannon K. Winston
