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Spring 2026
Table of Contents
2025 LORAINE WILLIAMS POETRY PRIZE
Once a Chinese Girl Mistook “Abecedarian” for “Obsidian”
Essays
From Heart Day: Reflections of a Heart Transplant Recipient
Are You Gettin’ the Spirit?: Why a Pastor’s Daughter Studies Black Poetry as a Sacred Practice
Listening to Jazz with My Father, translated from the French by J. Bret Maney
Fiction
The Monastery of Technologies
There Stands the House of Dolores del Río, translated from the Spanish by D. P. Snyder
Tucker and Nancy Are Starting a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band
Poetry
A Few Days; The Method; & Ars Poetica
After Lana Del Rey; Mount Lyell Shrew; Melatonin, Or; & Sex Towel T-Shirt
Chum in the Water; On the Same Boat; Adrienne Diving; & [Women] Live Like Bats or Owls, Labour Like Beasts, and Die Like Worm
Crown Cinquain for the Staple Found in an Old Jacket Pocket & Marriage Poem: Chiffonade
De Chardin at Sacré-Coeur
During the Storm, the City Reassures Me & I’m Not Here to Speak Until You Feel Clarity
Given How the God for Whom We Reserve All Our Awe Is Our Everyday Absence & Census
Incident at the Cloud Warehouse
Night Swimming; Arx Junonis; After Horace; Compulsory Field; The Vivid You; & In the Country of the Blind King
Nostalgia; Science Fiction; & Survival Instincts
poem where no cars crash; Murmur; & wanderlust
Reel & My Blue Days, My Sun of Childhood
Self Portrait of Helen after Troy; So You Want to Speak to the Witches?; & Subject Potential
sugar; the tides; glacier; & explanation
The Angel to Jacob; Touch Cinema; Love Poem: Grimoire; & Adam, Alone
The Blacksmith’s Charge; Peregrination Index; & The Quarrel Awash in the Mutable
Reviews
“I See It Feelingly”: On Criticism in Dark Times (on Nan Z. Da’s The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear)
on Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran
on Mirror by Zhang Zao, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
on Theater after Film by Martin Harries
