Summer 2026
Summer 2026—On the Body—features work by Ifeona Fulani, Meg McManama, Lo Naylor, Mickie Kennedy, Pamela Manasco, Seth Leeper, Rose DeMaris, Han VanderHart, Claire Denson, Izzy Casey, Dorsey Craft, Ranudi Gunawardena, Jennifer Veech, Penelope Song, Lana Reeves, Claudia Owusu, Rachel Cochran, Emily Van Kley, Sarah Renee Beach, Kimberly Ann Priest, Angie Romines, Shelby Handler, Stephanie Horvath, Amanda Hadlock, JeFF Stumpo, Erin Russell, Gus Peterson, Nozhan Resalati, Rahul Mehta, Lan Lesmeister, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Julia Kolchinsky, Bill Brymer, Courtney DuChene, Genna Gardini, Amy Miller, Allison C. Macy-Steines, Rosalind Guy, Morgan Hamill, Prosper Ìféányí, Maggie Queeney, Teneesh Kaur, Shane Neilson, Mariam Meetra (translated by Sabrina Nouri and Samantha Cosentino), Rochelle Hurt, P. Q. R. Anderson, N.T. Arévalo, Liam Strong, Lenna Mendoza, Jordan Bolden Majewski, Dante Di Stefano, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Panika M. C. Dillon, Liz Breazeale, Timothy Schaffert, Mary Brinker Post, and Maria Zoccola.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Essays
On the Cover: On the Body
Timothy Schaffert
Iron Byron
Angie Romines
Ampersand, Revisited
Allison C. Macy-Steines
3, 7, and 37
Taneesh Kaur
Crown
Jordan Bolden Majewski
She Married a Serial Killer: The True Story of Mary Brinker Post
Timothy Schaffert
Fiction
Eulie and Me
Ifeona Fulani
Embrace
Penelope Song
Disinterred—Edinburgh, 1863
Rachel Cochran
The Gun in the Pond
Amanda Hadlock
Ten Forbidden Words
Nozhan Resalati
The Quiet Is
N.T. Arévalo
Model Woman
Liz Breazeale
East Sound Girl
Mary Brinker Post
Poetry
Gravida Para
Meg McManama
a sister lay dead
Lo Naylor
Until We Saw Our Faces | The Violent Games
Mickie Kennedy
Cathedral Caverns
Pamela Manasco
Pantoublock with a Trigger of Overstimulation
Seth Leeper
Yearling
Rose DeMaris
alien & mechanic & uncanny | When your roots run deep
Han VanderHart
On Killing a Bee at Naples Pier, Florida
Claire Denson
Instructions on Becoming a Bird
Izzy Casey
Self-Portrait as Thermophile | High School Boyfriend
Dorsey Craft
My Mother, Photographed with Her Lover
Ranudi Gunawardena
Letter to a Future Congregation | A Cutting
Jennifer Veech
My Parents Kiss in a Convertible on the Pali | Giant Snails
Lana Reeves
An Aubade in Which It Is Cuffing Season, and I Am Not Bitter at All | Relational Geography
Claudia Owusu
Neurobiology | Nobel Woman
Emily Van Kley
What really happened is
Sarah Renee Beach
Like a Canary in a Coal Mine
Kimberly Ann Priest
Shells | The Daughters Remember | The Daughters Demand | The Mothers Explain
Shelby Handler
Field of Vision | Thermals
Stephanie Horvath
[Tonight you have teeth growing out of your teeth . . .] | [Tonight you are walking in the deep woods . . .]
JeFF Stumpo
Pose 3
Erin Russell
Still Bountiful
Gus Peterson
Life Is
Rahul Mehta
Anti-Eclogue | Death Bloom
Lan Lesmeister
The First Mermaid Speaks of Fish and Men
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Female octopuses will chuck seashells at males who irk them | Since telling you our marriage is over, I can’t stop imagining
Julia Kolchinksy
Chernobyl
Bill Brymer
How to Bury a Son | The Woman
Courtney DuChene
Saint Cecilia: A Burning Haibun
Genna Gardini
The Baby Is Late
Amy Miller
Blood Memories | God
Rosalind Guy
Marriage | Out of Love
Morgan Hamill
Aubade with Memory & Slit Throat
Prosper Ìféányí
Metaphor | The Animal Inside the Animal
Maggie Queeney
The Diver’s Response
Shane Neilson
Faceless | Dust
Mariam Meetra, translated by Sabrina Nouri and Samantha Cosentino
Dorothea Tanning—Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (1970–73)
Rochelle Hurt
Procedure in Rooms
P. Q. R. Anderson
on being called a cripple at the physical therapy center | apologizing to my surgeon ten seconds before anesthesia hits
Liam Strong
Fontanelle
Lenna Mendoza
Linden Street | Chenango Street
Dante Di Stefano
I flirt with a million | Mnemonic
Carlos Andrés Gómez
how to avoid starvation:
Panika M. C. Dillon
Spinal Column
A tiny poem on the spine by Maria Zoccola