Spring/Summer 2026
Contents:
AWP Pop-Up Contest Winners
Cooper Trail, “Little Boulder”
Lauren Hansen, “Swirling and Settling”
Poetry
Richard Jordan, “In the Air”
Jeffrey MacLachlan, “Sodus Bay”
Liz Purvis, “La Croix Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem”
Damilola Oyedeji, “Translocation in a Poem with Crossroads”
Tyler Robert Sheldon, “Sestina for My Grandfather Watching the Sopranos,” “We All Fall Down”
Shawn Scott Smith, “Sweet Tea”
Lydia Yawn, “Angel in My Attic: An Abecedarian”
Jaqueline West, “To the Child Who Died in my House a Hundred Years Ago”
Prose
Daniel Lurie, “Roost”
Lucy Zhang, “Charred”
Aditi Dasgupta, “Drying in the Balcony”
Josie Rowell, “The Farm”
Caitlin Annette Johnson, “The Wubble”
Visual Art
Kiera Fisher, “Ink Forms”
Esra Nizami, “Fragments”
Timothy R. Butcher, “Appalachian Landscape No. 6”
Mario Loprete, “IN CEMENTO VERITAS”
Amanda Yskamp, “Ignited Route”
Devon Balwit, “Alchemy”