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Volume 21, Issue 1

Summer & Fall 2026

Katie Condon, Aiden Heung, Garrett Hongo, Saba Keramati, Patricia Lockwood, Cleopatra Mathis, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Migwi Mwangi, Romeo Oriogun, Nina C. Peláez, Alycia Pirmohamed, Noel Quiñones, Maya Salameh, Sam Taylor, Adele Elise Williams, and more.

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Poetry

  • ROMEO ORIOGUN

    The Hotel

  • GARRETT HONGO

    Sword of No Sword

  • JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS

    Wheat Field without Crows

  • TODD OSBORNE

    Ode on Belief

  • MADELINE AUGUSTA TURNER

    Linda Ronstadt and I Slow Dance in the Walmart Parking Lot

  • DANIEL COUDRIET

    Two Poems

  • ASHLEY HAJIMIRSADEGHI

    For So Long, I Wanted to Become Light

  • ISRA HASSAN

    Glowsticks

  • JAMES CHAMPION

    Three Poems

  • DOROTHY NEAGLE

    Lewy Body and the Nightjar

  • LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER

    Two Poems

  • CARRIE CHAPPELL

    My Mother the School Teacher in Alabama

  • SARA Z. PHELPS

    hungry

  • LEONORA SIMONOVIS

    Two Poems

  • HOON KIM

    Imprudence

  • JULIA ANNA MORRISON

    Two Poems

  • GRACE ANNE ANDERSON

    Barre Work

  • REBECCA MANGRA

    Two Poems

  • MAYA SALAMEH

    Poem in Which the Demarcation

  • JAYE NASIR

    My Sorrow

  • KATIE CONDON

    I Haven’t Read Much Theory

  • ERICA REID

    The Coast

  • AMANDA HODES

    Pennsylvania Homecoming with Wheatfields and Haunted Maze

  • NINA C. PELÁEZ

    On a Work Trip, a Colleague Suggests a Visit to Brownells Firearms

  • NOEL QUIÑONES

    Ms. Frizzle Chaperones the Bronx Zoo Sleepaway Camp

  • PATRICIA LOCKWOOD

    Two Poems

  • NICOLE STOCKBURGER

    Two Poems

  • WESTON MORROW

    Birds of America

  • LAURA ADRIENNE BRADY

    My First Verb in Irish Gaelic

  • LLOYD WALLACE

    Dialogue

  • LILA BONOW

    Steelhead

  • ROBERT GRUNST

    Two Poems

  • SAM TAYLOR

    IQ Test Featuring the Discovery of America

  • PHIL KELLER

    Parkinson’s

  • ELISÁVET MAKRIDIS

    matrilineal sound recoiling into itself, or corpse walk

  • NIKELLE

    Ebb

  • ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED

    A woman shapeshifts into wind

  • EMILY SPENCER

    Embodiment Study

  • REED TURCHI

    Current & Its Carrying

  • SABA KERAMATI

    Clasp

  • CHELSEA CHRISTINE HILL

    Two Poems

  • STEPHANIE ELLIS SCHLAIFER

    Two Poems

  • ADELE ELISE WILLIAMS

    My Lover, the Moment I First Saw Him Nude,

  • CAROLINE WHITE

    The revolution

  • REBECCA CLARREN

    Giant Sequoia

  • CLEOPATRA MATHIS

    When my mother played Carmen

  • HILARY KING

    My Mother the Artist

  • JESSICA E. PIERCE

    Running errands, I notice

  • JO BEAR

    Two Poems

  • MIGWI MWANGI

    Ode to Incest Disguised as Litany

  • TIANYI

    Stock

  • KARA VAN DE GRAAF

    Two Poems

  • MEGAN J. ARLETT

    New Mexico Again

  • AIDEN HEUNG

    Mercy

2026 James Welch Prize

  • Winner

    A dissection of Ndé Biyáti’, or the way my heart dropped from Oak Flat, or how to be an NDN in the 21st century

    ALEXIS CLIFTON

  • Winner

    Chillona Feels Her Voice Break

    CASANDRA LÓPEZ

  • Finalist

    Muliwai

    DONAVAN KAMAKANI ALBANO

  • Finalist

    donkey considers the sun

    OFI DAVIS

  • Finalist

    Proximity to ‘Āina

    KALILINOE DETWILER

  • Finalist

    Restoring truth and sanity

    KINSALE DRAKE

  • Finalist

    Kaache neek meenan taapeekwak (even now the blueberries are ripe)

    BONNEY HARTLEY

  • Finalist

    Nā Hulu ‘Ekekeu

    MALIA MAXWELL

  • Finalist

    Response: A Triptych

    SUNNI PARISIEN

Features

  • Crossings

    Prokné, Anyám | Procne, My Mother

    SZILÁRD BORBÉLY
    (TRANS. OTTILIE MULZET)

  • Presenting

    Willie

    BLAINE PURCELL

  • In Progress

    Language Lessons

    JEANINE WALKER

  • In-Progress

    The House of Bliss

    ELIZABETH TORRES

  • Folio

    Orphos: A Folio of Bereavement

    JENNE KNIGHT, Three Poems
    RASHA ABDULHADI, Swimming Lessons
    LUCY WALKER, Three Poems
    ATIA SATTAR, Mother This Poem
    ALEJANDRO LUCERO, Perfect Shot
    GRAYSON WOLF, Two Poems
    ALISON ZHENG, The Work
    JADE CHO, Photo of Chew-Min
    L. A. JOHNSON, Three Poems

  • How To

    Drive in Italian

    KIKI PETROSINO

  • I Call It Joy

    Ode to the Beaver’s Toenail

    LILLIAN EMERICK VALENTINE

Artwork

  • CAMAS LOGUE