Spring 2025

From Volume 64.2

Poems by
Jane Hirshfield • “Velasquez / Boreal Wildfires”
Izzy Maxson • “Wildfire Haibun”
Dorianne Laux • “As I Fall Asleep” & “Lodi”
Michael Leal García • “The Myth of Stars” & “In the Absence of God”
Donna Prinzmetal • “What’s Left”
Madina Tuhbatullina • “Dust-Bound”
Derek Jon Dickinson • “Still Life”
Collin Garrity • “What Gives”
Mike Bove • “In Which the River Takes”
Michael Colonnese • “Family Salvage”
Brad Johnson • “Bonapartes and Sharks”
Matthew Kirby • “The Bay and Parked Cars” & “Apotheosis of August”
Christy Prahl • “Jars of It”
Michael Flatt • “Moving Day”
Rick Bursky • “Disagreement Among Experts”
Harley Tonelli • “[The First Tomato]”
Forester McClatchey • “Taxidermy”
Michael Gaspeny • “Burying the Runt”
Noah Davis • “Snow Geese Flying South”
Bill Brymer • “Counter Evolution”
Dion O’Reilly • “On the Other Hand: Surprise Saves Me” & “The Man at Pleasure Point”
John Wall Barger • “Screaming Man, L Train Platform”
Tom C. Hunley • “Hotel Bar in the Rain”
Steve McOrmond • “The World’s End”
Joseph Hutchison • “Falling Asleep Over Geography III“
Catherine Abbey Hodges • “My Next Life”

Prose by
Alice Allan • “Better: On the Delusions of Writing Advice”

Cover art by
Bussie Parker Kehoe