Issue VII // Summer 2026

Images above, from left to right:
“The Fish” by Anna Dauyl Rockswell, cover of Issue 7 using the piece “Dead end” by David August, “Hitching a Ride” by Larena Nellies-Ortiz

Read and view individual pieces in this issue below, or you can view the issue as a whole by downloading the PDF at this link

table of contents

EDITOR’S NOTE

P O E T R Y

Annie Bolger

Ode to Poets

Arshee Jameel

I Ate Art For Breakfast

Basseyanwan Usieremfon Bassey

Wild is not welcome

Christina Vagenius

Waterlily

David A. Goodrum

In Case of Fire

Ella Kindt

patron saint

Genevieve Creedon

On Possible Parenthood

Jackson Burgess

Untitled [In the murk of]

Jackson D. Moorman

Two Poems:
Tracing Glass
Grief House

kyrah gomes

Paradise City

Madhumaya A.K.

Bliss

Matthew Chi

Two Poems:
Even if I could, I would never
Cold Sweat

Megan Lolley

war on pomegranate

Miguel Rodríguez Otero

unnotched

Polly Conway

Three Poems:
Infinite Scroll
Loinnir
Agira Road

Tucker Riggleman

Hardy County Blues

Vidushi Rijuta

Verdict

F I C T I O N

FEATURED WRITER:
Casey McConahay

Interview & Flash Story:
Jesus in Seventh Period Is Concerned
About Immigration Agents

Claudia Doucet

Dead Cold

N O N F I C T I O N

FEATURED WRITER:
Ari Cordovero

Interview & Flash Story:
Baby

A R T

Amber Janay Cooper

Water Lily Series no. 4

Anna Dauyl Rockswell

The Fish

David August

Dead end
(Issue VII Cover Art)

Eleanor Brennan
crowdogart

all the better to see you with.

K. Garcia

Two Pieces:
Travelers Sun
The Light Returns

Karen Nielsen

Melancholy and Matrimony

Kate Agarwal

elation

Larena Nellies-Ortiz

Hitching a Ride

Priyam Bhattacharya

Stories

Rachel Blackline

Persephone’s inner garden

Sona Sahakian (S-Art)

Two Pieces:
Between Heaven and Earth
Nest

Sonal Goorha

Emergent Terrain

Sucharita Sengupta Suri

Three Pieces:
Absence Rhino
An Elsewhere Born of Dreams
Hispid Hare

Susan Ekuri

Fox and Flowers

Zainah Usman

the blackbird.

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