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Spring 2026
Table of Contents
2025 LORAINE WILLIAMS POETRY PRIZE
Essays
From Heart Day: Reflections of a Heart Transplant Recipient
Listening to Jazz with My Father, translated from the French by J. Bret Maney
Fiction
Tucker and Nancy Are Starting a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band
Poetry
A Few Days; The Method; & Ars Poetica
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
