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One season my stomach shrankfrom staying in bed for monthsso hungry. When bears hibernate, their bodies recycle to stayalive: reabsorbing urine, feces,like a dream each night. In those winter days,my stronger self recededinto that hole we all fear. Dirt from every angle. No onethinks so, but bears do wakein that shadowed cave, shifting to ward …

As part of our series From Our Contributors, Katie Berta explains the background behind her poem “[To be a child again.]”

An interview with our Issue 19.1 artist, Galina Shevchenko.

Starting in 2023, we’re changing some of our prices to align with industry standards and account for increased costs in printing.

We are honored to share and celebrate our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Microfiction, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, PEN/Robert J. Dau Award, and Best Spiritual Literature.

Floods and dustbowls, hopes and fears, climate fiction has it all—and isn’t going anywhere.

What can romance teach us about the space between “improbable” and “impossible”?

A story by Kevin McIlvoy, who died in September, introduced by Sebastian Matthews.

Leslie Lindsay chats with CR contributor Su Cho about her debut poetry collection, The Symmetry of Fish. Juxtaposing Korean and English, ocean and prairie, parent and child, Cho’s poetry, like water, takes an unpredictable path.

How do we choose a poem’s final, resounding lines?