Volume 100 Number 3

Fall 2026

Fall 2026 features a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro. Contributors to the issue include David Joez Villaverde, John Amen, Jennifer Franklin, Myronn Hardy, Rachel Hadas, Hannah Smith, Josiane Kouagheu, Abhishek Mehta, Virginia Lake, Joemario Umana, Jen Siraganian, Rebecca Lilly, Andrew Bertaina, Kate Kearns, Carolyn Williams-Noren, Richard Cole, Lizzie Hutton, Ben Perkins, John Kinsella, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Joan Murray, Nathan Metz, Lynne Potts, Ryan R. Kelley, Jory Mickelson, Sarah Kruse, Monmita Chakrabarti, Jordan Hamel, Tyler McAndrew, Uchechukwu Onyedikam, Anthony Aguero, Henk Rossouw, John Hart, Laura Demers, Joy Castro, John Morán González, Annette M. Rodríguez, Luis J. Rodríguez, Nancy Friedemann- Sánchez, Alejandro Nodarse, Sara Daniele Rivera, Sergio Troncoso, Aracelis González Asendorf, Raúl Lorca Madrid, Lorraine M. López, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Sandra Cisneros, Ángel García, Patricia Engel, Ana Menéndez, Daniel A. Olivas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, José Navarro, Rigoberto González, Carmen E. Lamas, Marco Fernando Navarro, Paty Abril-Gonzalez, Alexander Ramirez, Daisy Hernández, Thomás Jesús Garza, Mónica A. Jiménez, James López, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisandro Pérez, Belinda Acosta, Brook McClurg, Anjanette Delgado, and Travis Cohen Acosta.

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Latinx Flash Memoir

Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)
Joy Castro

Checkpoint
John Morán González

Geranium
Annette M. Rodríguez

Artist Statement | Biombo 1 | Tornatrás | Self- Portrait with Papaya (detail) | Cornucopia | Matar, Rematar, Recontramatar / Kill, Overkill, Superoverkill | Dream Map and Cornucopia with Flames | Un Acordeón tras la Reja | Dream Map and Cornucopia with Green Eyes
Nancy Friedemann- Sánchez

Why I Can Love the United States and Mexico
Luis J. Rodríguez

Empty Desks
Alejandro Nodarse

Embudito Canyon
Sara Daniele Rivera

A Temporary Border
Sergio Troncoso

Why We Came
Aracelis González Asendorf

We’re Here
Raúl Lorca Madrid

Sturdy Girl
Lorraine M. López

Coyote Blotter
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

To Cheng Chen, with Love
Sandra Cisneros

Crybaby
Ángel García

Come As You Are
Patricia Engel

Some Notes on Patriarchy
Ana Menéndez

Only a Little While Here
Daniel A. Olivas

La Chingona Guide to Baldness
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Baptized in Blood
José Navarro

You Hate Easter
Rigoberto González

We Were Not the Wealthy Cubans | My Mother
Carmen E. Lamas

When My Mother Sings
Marco Fernando Navarro

Ojos Is Eyes
Paty Abril-Gonzalez

The Recipe
Alexander Ramirez

I believed everything they said about Jesse Jackson
Daisy Hernández

Manos Vacías
Thomás Jesús Garza

Amor del Viejo
Mónica A. Jiménez

Dirty Feet
James López

Some Notes to My Baby | Attachment
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fuller Brush Man
Lisandro Pérez

Suerza
Belinda Acosta

Plumb
Brook McClurg

Minor Breach of Motherhood
Anjanette Delgado

Essays

Shakespeare in Paris
Myronn Hardy

Sex Strike
Ben Perkins

Gut Feeling
Monmita Chakrabarti

Acts of Translation
Travis Cohen Acosta

Fiction

The Coast of Maine
Andrew Bertaina

The Return of the Girl Detective
Ryan R. Kelley

Life in Reverse
Tyler McAndrew

Pink Frosting
Laura Demers

Poetry

Usted
David Joez Villaverde

Hart
John Amen

Virginia Woolf and the River Ouse | To Virginia Woolf after Reading about Your Rest Cures | With Lines from Virginia Woolf | Beginning and Ending with the Same Line by Virginia Woolf
Jennnifer Franklin

Limpid
Rachel Hadas

Into the Lugubrium
Hannah Smith

once upon a time, a poet inside the war reporter (ii)
Josiane Kouagheu

They, these | A different name
Abhishek Mehta

The Year of the Snake
Virginia Lake

One Prayer | In the hands of prayer
Joemario Umana

Self-Portrait with Diana Al-Hadid’s The Candle Clock in the Citadel
Jen Siraganian

The Elements of a Poem
Rebecca Lilly

To the AI Writing Poems
Kate Kearns

English II | History IV [Now] | Music II
Carolyn Williams-Noren

The Cost of Doing Business
Richard Cole

Enthusiasms
Lizzie Hutton

Echo and Narcissus | Nocturne
John Kinsella

A Mirror Triptych | Fungible
Benjamin S. Grossberg

Her Reality
Joan Murray

Willard Airport
Nathan Metz

On the Occasion of My 83rd Birthday
Lynne Potts

[Everyone expects] | [Give me your red]
Jory Mickelson

Almost Stealing Dorianne Laux’s Lighter
Sarah Kruse

How to Write a Boy Back into the Living
Jordan Hamel

Road to Damascus
Uchechukwu Onyedikam

An Act
Anthony Aguero

Willapa | Fort Foster | Autosonnet
Henk Rossouw

Ars Poetica | Feast of St. Francis | Sad Poems
John Hart

Spinal Column

A poem on the spine by Sandra Cisneros