Issue Forty: Spring 2026

The first signs of spring are often easy to miss—buds along bare branches, rain moving across open spaces, light lingering longer in the evening sky. In a moment when the world feels unsettled, these early signs remind us that renewal rarely arrives all at once. Across this issue, landscapes become places where memory, grief, and wonder unfold. Rivers carry absence, gardens hold fragile abundance, and storms gather over wide plains. Issue Forty features work by Adam Breier, Amanda Adrienne Smith, Anne Mesquita, Dara Laine, Deanna Benjamin, Dominic Belmonte, Elizabeth Gunn, Eugene Stevenson, George Looney, Jenny Severyn, Katherine Schander-Triplett, Lilianne Milgrom, Lissa Staples, Lucinda Trew, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Mark Anthony Burke, Peter Leroe-Muñoz, R.G. Evans, Richard Prins, Ruiyan Zhu, Sarah Ellis, Stephen Barile, Susan Barry-Schulz, and Ted Jean.