Summer 2026 Contributor Publications
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (61.2, 65.2)’s book of poems Boys Behind Glass (featuring art by Jenny Walton) came out in March from Texas Review Press. Adam Scheffler (54.1)’s critical book on James Wright, So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright, came out in May from LSU . . .
Interview with Caroline Crew
Crew, at “her tree” on the farm, after her dad’s death. I’m interested in how “Feast: Fruits of the Land” came to exist. How did you decide on the format (namely: the altered sonnet structure, and the beginnings of passages picking up the preceding last lines)? This piece is one “course” of . . .
Don’t Let Childhood Be Erased In Gaza
On Gaza’s beach, a young girl kneels beside a sand turtle she shaped with her hands and decorated with seashells. All photographs by Shams Mazen Rajab. Every day, thousands of children wake in tents instead of homes, stand in lines for water instead of classrooms. Play has become a rare luxury, and . . .