Poetry
The night I learn that quantum mechanics says that in trying to observe something you alter it
Bleah Patterson (she/her) is a southern, queer writer born and raised in Texas. A current MFA candidate and writing professor. She is a Pushcart nominee, has been a SAFTA and BAC resident, and her various genres of work are featured or forthcoming in Barely South, Write or Die, Phoebe Literature, The Texas Review, Milk Press, Beaver Magazine, Across the Margins, Electric Literature, Queerlings, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere.
Within is a moss of nonlinear relation
Ashleigh A. Allen is a graduate of The New School’s MFA program, and she has been teaching, first in New York City and then in Toronto, since 2010. Currently, she is a researcher, instructor, and Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Pedagogy at OISE/ University of Toronto. Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in The Malahat Review, PRISM international, the minnesota review, Fourteen Hills, Invisible City, So To Speak Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2024 Writers Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry and was longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize.
The Poet & the City
Steven Cordova Steven Cordova’s full-length collection of poetry, Long Distance, was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2010. His poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Journal, New Orleans Review, Notre Dame Review, Los Angeles Review and Pleaides. From San Antonio, TX, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Bacardi Lips
Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors’ Selection for the 2022 Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024). His latest work appears and is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Passages North, RHINO, and The Southern Review. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and is a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.
We Open on a Field
Michaela Brown is a Midwest transplant currently teaching English in Vigo, Spain. She is the first place recipient of the 2020 Marjorie Stover Short Story Prize and has previously been published in Unstamatic Magazine, Gone Lawn, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @mikienbrown.
Parable of Sparrow and Crocodile
Originally from the DC area, Matthew Moniz has poems appearing in or forthcoming from The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Tupelo Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, and minnesota review. His work has been awarded Poetry by the Sea’s Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest prize and the SCMLA Poetry Prize.
MY GRANDMOTHER AFTER KOREA
Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai’i and the author of Brine Orchid (YesYes Books 2025) and Animal Logic (Bull City Press 2025). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, The Threepenny Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Arah edits at Surging Tide Magazine and is pursuing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Cincinnati. Catch her at arahko.com.
One Winter in Vermont
Emily Light is a poet, educator, and mother living in northern New Jersey. Her poetry can be found in such journals as Inch, Salt Hill, Cherry Tree, Cumberland River Review, and RHINO, among others.
How to Love the Natural Sciences
Based in West Texas, Jennifer Loyd is a poet, translator, and a former editor for Copper Nickel, West Branch, and Sycamore Review. For her poetry exploring the archives of Rachel Carson, she has received a Stadler Fellowship, as well as research grants from Purdue University, where she earned an MFA. Her poems and prose, which explore the intersection between private voice and public narratives, appear in Best New Poets, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Swamp Pink, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.
self portrait as saint dymphna
MJ Lu (she/they) is a Southeast Asian American poet who hails from North Carolina. Her work was previously published in MudRoom, Bulb Culture Collective, and Von Aegir Literary.
This Map of the Profane by Erin Elkins Radcliffe
Erin Elkins Radcliffe is a third-generation oldest child and the author of “Station of Rain” (dancing girl press) and “Bottomland” (Sundress Publications). Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit, Tupelo Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Indiana, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her family.
Wedded, at Last, to the Idea of Weeds by Rosanne Singer
Rosanne Singer been a teaching artist in the Maryland schools and part of small arts teams working with wounded warriors and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and with pediatric patients at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Currently she is getting her MFA at the University of Baltimore. Recent work has appeared online in The Baltimore Fishbowl and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in Allium and 1-70 Review. Social media handles are Twitter: @poetsinger and Instagram: @rosannesinger5.
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