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Issue 53 • Spring 2026

Orange, yellow, and green abstract watercolor painting

Letter to You About Home as a Song on Our Bodies

By Lindsay Wilson

Painting of bare trees in desert landscape with pointy, blue mountains on horizon

Grocery Run for Grandpa

By Victor Hugo Mendevil

Photo of fireworks and lightning storm in background, trees and long-exposure traffic in foreground, at night

Borrowed Saints

By Windy Martinez

Issue 52 • Fall 2025

Painting of three red and white anthurium flowers

Her English

By Jose Oseguera

Photograph of deserted beach with lifeguard chair and blue sky

Out of the Shade

By Meghan Sterling

Painting of a black woman in the woods carrying a basket of red apples with a wolf behind her with a city burning the distance.

monarchs

By Ivy Raff

Multimedia art piece of maroon mesa with moon and star in the sky

arroyos

By Marika Guthrie

Issue 51 • Spring 2025

Photograph of a sculpted bull against a grey background.

Study #2 for cm

by Nico Amador

Abstract art; blue and gold paint poured on linen, streaking out in sunburst from center

I could tell you why I walk like this

by Diem Okoye

Photograph of a mural of a windmill painted on a wall above a yellowed grass field with a cactus.

My father’s mouth

by Joe Lozano

Photograph of an empty pool by the water, a cloudy sky above.

The Secret

by EB Ramzi

Issue 50 • Fall 2024

Photograph of an orange wall with white paint and waterstains running down

Notes on the Back of the Syllabus

by Ceridwen Hall

Painting of a cloudy blue sky, semi abstract, above blueish purple mountains

I’m Not a Mathematician

by Patrick Holian

Photograph of four horses in the desert, one facing the camera

How to Write a Happy Ending

by Jeevan Anthony Narney

Photograph of a zoomed-in face, blurry, with red highlights

death count of the ghost doctor

by Zoë Luh

Issue 49 • Spring 2024

طین (Mud)

By Noor Al-Samarrai

Close-up portrayal of moonflowers at night.

A Dog Named Lily

By Nancy Beauregard

Collaged image of birdhouses in an urban scene with a tree and tall buildings.

[SUNDAY] and [MONDAY MORNING]

By Harley Tonelli

Issue 48 • Fall 2023

illustration of Strata near Valenciennes

Mermaids of Albuquerque

By Elizabeth Cohen

two photos of women's dress hems, legs and shoes

Tone Poem

By Bob Hicok

a classical statue mixed media collage

The Pigeons

By Katey Linskey

black and white photograph of boulders and rocks

Nothing Grows in Fontana

By Michael Vargas

Issue 47 • Spring 2023

Image of squares building face

My Mother’s Hands

by Eleanor Kedney

Purple painting including snake-like center

The Dogs, The Dust: Open

by Tamara Panici

Abstract painting including blue, green, and red

Drift Line

by Emma Aylor

Issue 46 • Fall 2022

Abstract paint splatter

Reconsidering god

by Dennise Gackstetter

Image of various flowers and leaves

The Summer-Lessened Stream

by Laura Foley

Abstract blue and gray painting

Melanin Inheritance

by Anita Cantillo

Issue 45 • Spring 2022

Drawing of creature emerging from water

ní de aquí

by Marvin Contreras

Black and gold image of man standing in water

Bone

by S.N. Rodriguez

Issue 44 • Fall 2021

Abstract image including red, blue, and yellow

How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters

by Saúl Hernández

Abstract painting including blues, reds, and whites

Poem in Which a Gold Rush Bride Writes to Her Husband

by Joanna Ng

Issue 43 • Spring 2021

Drawing of mountain range

Recipe: Snowplow

by B. Tyler Lee

Drawing of landscape including river and mountains

Recipe: Rhubarb, Ginger, and Chili Jam

by B. Tyler Lee

Circular image of different-colored squares

Blue Jay

by Clare Banks

Issue 42 • Fall 2020

Colorful painting of plants

Year of the Horse (2002)

by Stephanie Chang

Collage including images of forest, bust, and lines of text reading, "Long ago, there was a time / when I called myself girl, not oil slick / not burning barn, not avalanche / of want.

Crown of Screws

by Kelly Weber

Issue 41 • Spring 2020

Rachel Mindell in blue shirt

Aricept

by Rachel Mindell

Drawings of cartoon guns

Emergency C-Section with Partial Hindsight

by Ashley Kunsa

Black and white drawing of girl holding sink in river

Of Love (not in)

by Shoshana Tehila Surek

Photo of sculpture of face with one square eye

Selection of Poems from Joy Harjo

by Joy Harjo

Issue 40 • Fall 2019

Graffiti including an image of a house and trees and reading "WATER YOUR ROOTS"

sonnet written upon hearing the bodies of nearly a dozen beheaded goats were found alongside the shores of a river outside atlanta

by William Harris

Black and white photo of field through barbed wire

Coping Mechanisms

by Natalie Wee

Issue 39 • Spring 2019

Drawing of two people combined at hair against yellow circles with eyes

Lesbians at the Gun Store

by Catharine Wright

Photo of psychedelic purple and blue swirl

Pentimento after Claudia Rankine

by henry 7. reneau jr.

Photo of old woman getting her headscarf adjusted by a tall man with his back to the camera

My mother sings of January

by J. David

Issue 38 • Fall 2018

Abstract collage including animals, a man, and various colorful patterns

Calluses

by Mauricio Novoa

Photo of chipping wall that includes painting of welcoming blue door

electric hand (after CAConrad)

by Ivanna Baranova

Photo of trees reflected against still water

Menstruation Triptych

by Jihyun Yun

Issue 37 • Spring 2018

Shirtless man and woman on beach in bathing caps stare close-eyed upward

In the Safest Suburb in the World

by Tresha Haefner

Pile of gummy bears

Hambre

by George Such

mudd howard in pink shirt against pink background

ghoul

by mud howard

Issue 36 • Fall 2017

Starter Home

by Samuel Piccone

black and white drawing of woman with blindfold and hair of different patterns

Her word will land in you

by Alana de Hinojosa

Abstract painting

egungun

by Aurielle Lucier

Issue 35 • Spring 2017

Black and white photo of a barn

The Boat I’m Building You

by Robin Cedar

Black and white photo of driftwood

Elegy

by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Side of brown model house

Reckoning

by Liz N. Clift

Issue 34 • Fall 2016

Epilogue: Lend Me Your Teeth

by Alabama Stone

McDonald’s

by Anders Carlson-Wee

Threnody

by Elisabeth Murawski

Issue 33 • Spring 2016

Black and white photo of rolling southwestern landscape

I want to take different/sounds inside me, in shape/and color I could never believe in/out in the open, elsewhere

by Zach Mueller

abstract art with orange and blue

Vocabulary Lesson

by Deborah A. Lott

Black and white photo of lake surrounded by mountains with low cloud cover.

Dark Horse

by Kristina Marie Darling

Every Father Says I Love You

by Oscar Mancinas