Winter 2026
Vol. 69, No. 1
Fiction
Talia Neffson: “Cenacolo”
Mays Kuhail: “Between the Seas”
Madison Jozefiak: “Raining in Dorchester”
Ian VanDuzer: “The Man-Eaters of Pakesley”
Jaia Hamid Bashir: “Two-Headed Animal”
Otis Fuqua: “Boy in Bus from Below”
Harriet Burns-Chalmers: “Codenames”
Poetry
Emma Bolden: “Political Science”
Rachel Hadas: “Ware of a World”
ShaneMcCrae: “Elizabethan Sonnet on He Recalls His Time as a Student Musician as He Talks About Bombing Iran”
Peter Vertacnik: “Last”
George Witte: “Long Distance Call to a Number No Longer in Service”
Michael Lavers: “What Is”; “Darkness and Rain”
Will Wells: “Midwestern Cornfield Late July”; “Real Estate”
Anna Lewis: “Battleground State”
Anna Lena Phillips Bell: “Undoing”; “Golden”
Mary Meriam: “Being”
John Poch: “April”
Christopher Childers: “The Weight”
Catullus, by E. J. Hutchinson: “101: Ave atque Vale”
A. M. Juster: “Strip Mall Parking Lot”
Alejandro Aguirre: “A Fit of Krauts”
Forester McClatchey: “Rain on Leaf”; “Question for the Dead”
J.C. Scharl: “Late August Garden”
Brooke Clark: “On Where You Are”
Jason Gordy Walker: “Charles Dexter, Pro Baseball Player, After the Iroquois Theater Fire”
Ernest Hilbert: “Dig”
Amit Majmudar: “Me Tangere”; “For Isaac Babel”
Moisei Fishbein, by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin: “A Musician, 1942”; “Dream”
Ruby Hansen Murray: “Speaking Native Books to Life”
Maya Venters: “If I Die by Volcano”
Eliza Gilbert: “Portrait of the Beast”
Brian Brodeur: “Veeries”
Malene Engelund “Let What Needs to Go Burn”
Melissa Balmain: “Interior Monologue in the Paper Goods Aisle”
Sunil Iyengar: “Reproach”
Erick Verran: “Hortus Conclusus”
Malcolm Greenlee Farley: “A Boy Gets Jolted at The Franklin Institute, 1976”
Eric T. Racher: “Herman Melville, Customs Inspector Number 75, New York City, 1871”
Criticism
Esther Allen: “Borges and Borges”
