Editor's Note 4/23

Welcome to our seventeenth and April issue! With this issue, we’re leaning into our literary roots with a number of pieces that incorporate sci-fi and fantasy references, elements of critical theory, and a bit of (somewhat obscure) absurdist humor, just for the sake of it.

And an update on our chapbook project: we’ve received dozens of manuscripts, far more than we expected, which is fantastic. We expect to start formal first pass reviews and make our initial decisions starting in May. For those who have submitted, thank you for your patience! The project is on track to do quite well.

With that, we present poetry by:

Berin Aptoula
Meredith M. Davidson
Peter J. Grieco
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Olya Kenney
Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh
Michael Rogner
Jen Schneider
Matea Šimić
Elizabeth Wing
Kenton Yee

Prose poetry by:

Jerome Berglund
Annette C. Boehm
Neil Rhind
Haleigh Yaspan

And visual art by:

Guilherme Bergamini
Gerburg Garmann
John Hodges
Janis Butler Holm
Emily Rankin

All the best and happy reading,

Matthew Bullen
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

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