Issue Thirty-Nine: Winter 2026

Our winter issue dwells in deep time and lived aftermath, moving between the geologic, the historical, and the human. Brantingham’s opening suite reminds us that “you can still see the ice age if you know / how to look,” casting the natural world as record and witness. Across the issue, landscapes hold memory and consequence: Wilson’s woodlot, Morris’s arid West, Daniels’s heron at the edge of loss. Other pieces reckon with inheritance and rupture—Hutchison traces violence to the first lifted bone, while Belton’s “Six Simple Machines” collapses myth and war. The work resists resolution, asking us to sit with what endures and what unsettles us.

Issue Thirty-Nine features work by Ana Brotas, Angelica Esquivel, Barbara Daniels, Becky Boling, Carol Shillibeer, Cecil Morris, Christine Potter, D. E. Green, Joe Hilliard, John Brantingham, Laura Hannett, Maria Kalliokoski, Maxwell Pearl, Michael T. Young, Michelle McMillan-Holifield, Olivia Do, Ryan Kittleman, Sara Wilson, Scott T. Hutchison, and Thomas Belton.