From our Contributors

Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.

3 minutes reading time Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter: As North Americans, when we think about current-day Crimea, our first, and perhaps only, association may be with war. In her haunting essay in Issue 21.1, “Gone Are the Blackberries, the Alycha, the Asters, and the Rusty Spigot,” Yekaterina Droog pays tribute to her grandfather’s lost …

Hadley Moore explores what we can learn from photos of our fallen heroes.

Nikki Barnhart shares the artworks that inspired her story in issue 21.1, “Rabbit, Rabbit.”

“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”

Mandy-Suzanne Wong welcomes us to a library where artists mourn, and collaborate with, mussels who may be extinct.

Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”

Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of “Gemels,” a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.

Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.

“Not everyone will walk away from a computer into the vast outdoors and find help from a hawk. But over time, these ‘focused walkaways,’ which were first unexpected distractions, have become a scheduled part of my practice, my discipline.”