Welcome to the June Issue, Volume 26, Issue 2 of Cider Press Review.

In our most recent issue of Cider Press Review, animals—both living and deceased—are central. In Christian Ward’s “Lines written on finding a dead fox,” its “lifeless body” is “posed like a Pompeii corpse / waiting for the ash-coffin.” In Kathy Nelson’s “Prayer for Quails, High Desert, My Irrigated Backyard,” quails conceal themselves from predators: “Let them be disguised as stones— / embellishments, sand-colored jewels.” In Matt Dennison’s “Home,” animals are implied, rather than seen, “at best slithery backs / and legs hightailing it, seeking under / or out of.”

Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 26, Issue 2 includes poems by Julia Wendell, Lisa Wujnovich, Brady Rhoades, John Pijewski, Gail Newman, Rachel Morgan, Anastasios Mihalopoulos, Megan Merchant, Lea Marshall, Richard Jordan, J.D. Isip, Cecelia Hagen, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Susana H. Case, Ryan Brennan, and Jessica Barksdale.

You’ll also find John Bradley’s review of Eliot Weinberger’s The Life of Tu Fu and Dave Seter’s review of Laura Isabela Amsel’s A Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet.

Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 26, Issue 2.