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Issue 34 | Spring 2026

Issue 34 arrives like a fresh sprout following a long, dark winter. Featuring brash and velvety new work from Itto and Mekiya Outini, Grant Maierhofer, Garima Chhikara, Claire Salvato, Garth Robinson, James Nulick, Jade Kleiner, Manshuk Kali (translated by Slava Faybysh), Ricardo Bernhard, Rowan MacDonald, L.M. Moore, Stacey C. Johnson, Alex Dodt, David Anson Lee, Will Falk, Davey Long, and Jo Ann Clark. Cover art by Richard Hanus.

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witness to the non-arrival

By Stacey C. Johnson

some inherit land, and others silence.
I took in the riddle of loam—
where the unspoken ones are buried

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with history trapped inside us

By Stacey C. Johnson

The problem in the highway days was where to begin.
Even the lions we imagined becoming went lame.
Our backs bent early, sights set on oblivion.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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