Description
Issue 31
Release Date April 27, 2026
Photography from a Maine farm; essays about a friendship in Senegal and an injury that won't heal; stories set in Turkey and India, and in a laboratory, a racetrack, a gym, and a farm; and poems on family, race, faith, Ukraine, and more.
Fiction
Sindya Bhanoo, “Dead Man’s Association”
Russell Brakefield, “The Strays”
DéLana R. A. Dameron, “Pal O Mine”
Liz DeWolf, “Ex Situ”
Andrew Steiner, “Working In”
Juliet McShannon, “Rescue”
Lauren Acampora, “Husbandry”
Essays
Natalie Linh Bolderston, “A Story is an Offering: Notes on Storytelling and Inherited Memory”
Ro Skelton, “Naow’s Boutique”
Emily Nemens, “The Back Meets the Nose”
Poetry
Hugo dos Santos, “Undoing”
L. S. Klatt, “U N C O N T A I N A B L E”
Rachel Hadas, “Deaccessioning”
Dylan Carpenter, “Fantasia”
Olena Jennings, “Leaving Lviv”
J. J. Starr, “* * *”
Lauren Delapenha, “If You Are Learning English”
Lauren Delapenha, “Supermarketing”
Ezza Ahmed, “In Place of River I’ll Use [God]”
Ezza Ahmed, “My Cousin Thinks I Gave Her Nazr”
Geoffrey Brock, “My Wife Dreams of My Father”
Lynne Thompson, “By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already ended, and still”
Aleksandar Hemon, “The Spies”
Peter Campion, “Both Sides of Winter”
Stefan Bindley-Taylor, “Jesus’ Body Found Outside Ice Cream Parlor in Black Suburb”
Ru Freeman, “Ponder Heart”
Fatimah Asghar, “[Freedom Song]”
Fatimah Asghar, “[No one can take my anger]”
Daniel Tobin, “The Grave Fox”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Nocturne for Dark Things”
Maria Terrone, “Safe & Secure Destruction”
Boris Dralyuk, “Legion”
Art
Nina Fuller, “On the Farm”
