wildscape. literary journal

Issue VII // Summer 2026

Image above:
Cover of Issue 8 using the piece “Summer’s Last Dance” by Jennifer Wannen

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table of contents

EDITOR’S NOTE

P O E T R Y

Ashley Kirkland

The Red Panda at the Cincinnati Zoo Is Pregnant with Twins!

Chandra Persaud

Black Sheep

Dick Westheimer

Alternatives to Google Search

Edie Meade

Latter-day Goth

Eliza Day

The Pizza Oven Smokes Like An Emergency

Emily Tong

The Red Slip Says “THIS BUS HAS BEEN CHECKED FOR SLEEPING CHILDREN”

FEATURED POET:
Enas Suleiman

Interview & Poem:
Fire

Idia Enoma

self-portrait as icarus before the water

Jenna V. Wray

Ecclesiastes

Kara Dorris

Marie Curie(s)

Kataru Yahya

Grief in Parentheses

M. Campbell

Dismemberment

Madeline Newell-Wilson

Travel by Samsonite after another metaphorical death

Mark Dunbar

Instead

Raya Yarbrough

The Yucca Stalk

Zachariah Claypole White

Letter from My Future Self, after Climate Change

F I C T I O N

Christine Robertson

Lemon Daze

Kelly Murashige

The View

FEATURED WRITER:
Kelly White Arnold

Interview & Flash Story:
Dining Hall Alchemy, or How to Transfigure a Fork and a
Friendship in Seven Easy Steps

N O N F I C T I O N

Dawn McCombs

Buoy

A R T

Ayçe Çelikel

moon repair

Bahar Es’haghi &
Narges Goleij

Fly, Shaparak, Fly

Beth Kephart

Gold Splatter

Brian Hallas

anatomia di lustrini 18

Fable McKinley

Vengeful

Idil Ural

The Sea Within

J.V. Foerster

Methuselah

Jacob Bush

Sun King

Jennifer Wannen

Two Pieces:
Summer’s Last Dance (Cover Art)
Verdant Echoes

Jennifer Lynn Andersen

Ground and Spirit

Katie Hughbanks

Decay

Kim Arthurs

The Only Way Out Is Through

Marlowe K.

Wicomico #7

Olga Karpenko

Two Pieces:
Misty Morning in Tyrol
Song to the Sun

Rashan Speller

Shadow and Spire

Reiner Heidorn

Central Europe from 1914 until today

Susan Schirl Smith

A Different Direction

Tabitha Gimbel

Green Dragonfly

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