Honey, pears, oranges, gooseberries, gardenias—our October issue features blossoms and harvests in poems that celebrate form, shape, and what it means to give our attention over to something small and ephemeral. In “Ascension,” Marc Di Martino writes about a balloon release, “so if it’s found as far off as Juneau / they’ll mail it back, stick a colored pin / on the map of the world.” And in “Formal Family Portraits,” Deborah Pope writes: “this is how we tried to look this is how / we want to be remembered.” Other poems in this issue invoke that desire to be remembered with the image of bulbs in snow in “Resilience as Daffodil” by Laura Hogan, or the reflective wish to a person on the other end of the phone in “Suddenlink” by Colleen Kam Siu.
Read Vol. 24, Issue 4 for more of what is fleeting but also resilient, including poetry by Gustavo Adolfo Garcés translated from the Spanish by Carlos Reyes, as well as additional poems by Samaa Abdurraqib, John Miller, Connie Soper, Aryton Lopez, Deborah Pope, Genevieve Creedon, Pui Ying Wong, John Nieves, Angela Siew, Nick Conrad, Susana Case, Marc Di Martino, Cynthia Rausch Allar, George Looney, Will Walker, Colleen Kam Siu, M.S. Rooney, Eric Fisher Stone, and Laura Hogan. We also feature Kevin Spicer’s review of Hallelujah Time by Virginia Konchan and Nikki Ummel’s review of Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar.
