Spring 2026
Spring 2026—the Loneliness Issue—features work by Kurt Andersen, Jeremy Tavares, Timothy Schaffert, Jamila Osman, Terese Svoboda, Elizabeth Crane, Cynthia Sylvester, Ciara Alfaro, Olufunke Ogundimu, Robert Brian Mulder, Matt Barrett, Milena Nigam, David Hernandez, Andrew Garvin, L. A. Johnson, Alex Tretbar, Alexandra Malouf, Judith Vollmer, Adam O. Davis, Daniel Hales, Winniebell Xinyu Zong, Brad Aaron Modlin, Yosra Bouslama, Rose McLarney, Daniel Barnum, Ross White, Christtie Jay, Scott Cairns, Warren Woessner, Tara Mesalik MacMahon, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Kelan Nee, Edwardson Ukata, Bryan Obinna Okwesili, Chisom Okafor, Saddiq Dzukogi, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Essays
On the Cover: Solitude ≠ Loneliness
Kurt Andersen
You Are Not Holden Caulfield
Jeremy Tavares
Censoring Prairie Schooner
Timothy Schaffert
Dream Girl
Winner of the 2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest
Jamila Osman
Fiction
Hunting Dog
Terese Svoboda
The Language Police, Empaths Division
Elizabeth Crane
Sundown
Cynthia Sylvester
In the Body of Everything
Ciara Alfaro
The Bird That Cries Mayday
Olufunke Ogundimu
Somewhere in Tennessee
Robert Brian Mulder
The Long Save
Matt Barrett
Poland
Milena Nigam
Poetry
No Self Self-Portrait | Self-Portrait in Awe | Self-Portrait without a Body | Self-Portrait in Terror | Art Majors Overheard after the Election
David Hernandez
Collections
Andrew Garvin
In a Photograph of Me
L. A. Johnson
The Window
Alex Tretbar
Disclaimer of Facts | To N | Now Listen
Alexandra Malouf
The Owls of Piazza della Rotonda | The Tube | Along the Juniata | Sugar Table
Judith Vollmer
The States
Adam O. Davis
How to Win the Spring Offensive
Daniel Hales
A Happy Poem for Today | We Want to Believe | Hi Lenny My Name Is Joy: A Lancaster, PA, Voicemail’s Low-Confidence Auto Translation
Winniebell Xinyu Zong
Your Upstairs Neighbors’ Brass Bed
Brad Aaron Modlin
Self-portrait as Cliché | M/Other
Yosra Bouslama
Gravedigger | the leaf, the blossom, or the bole
Rose McLarney
Red-Winged Blackbird | One Reason Not to Walk into the Sea
Daniel Barnum
The Approaching Quiet | As If to Explain Loss | Worn Down
Ross White
Mother
Christtie Jay
These Few Awaiting Rescue
Scott Cairns
Remember the Red River Valley
Warren Woessner
Because Saleh’s Mother Dies
Tara Mesalik MacMahon
If I Will Be Queen, Let It Be Queen of the Dead
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Feeble Hand | Window Seat
Kelan Nee
The Conscionableness of My Father’s Pride
Edwardson Ukata
But Who Will Tell Her?
Bryan Obinna Okwesili
In conversation with my younger double on the night shift
Chisom Okafor
Like My Dreams Weren’t Made of Glass
Saddiq Dzukogi
The Immigrant’s Very Good Daughter
Aimee Nezhukumatathil