Issue Thirty-Seven: Summer 2025

Issue Thirty-Seven arrives as days in central Florida grow heavy with heat. Mornings come thick with the promise of afternoon storms. There’s a gathering density to the days—a weight, a waiting. That same tension—between stillness and storm—threads its way through this issue. Rood’s opening poem follows a quiet call the speaker doesn’t fully understand. Collins writes of seeking certainty, discarding it, and taking it up again. Green reminds us that language falls short of lived experience. From Stegman Moskal’s meditations on naming to Smith’s closing prose poem that slips away as it nears its meaning, these works offer small moments to sit with the unspoken and the unresolved.

Our summer issue includes work by Becky Boling, Casey Jo Holman, Charlene Stegman Moskal, Coriander Focus, D. E. Green, Dharmavadana, Diem Okoye, Don Farrell, Ernest Williamson III, Jennifer Rood, Karen Bramblett, Melinda Mullet, Nancy Huxtable Mohr, Richard Collins, Sarah Cummins Small, Sarah Wolfe, Skyler Lambert, and VA Smith.