From our Contributors

SarahFawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House,” her essay about doll-play and training for motherhood, from issue 20.2.

Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.

Kate Partridge on the tumblefeed, fires, and motion studies behind her poem “Meditation with Grass Fire and Tumbleweed” from Issue 20.1.

Essayist Joylyn Chai explores how her relationship with gardening changed her relationship with the Toronto Land Acknowledgment.

Poet GC Waldrep shares the experiences behind his poem “The Arrhythmias,” including horrible dreams, stolen peaches, and a childhood book with a bright turquoise color.

What makes second-person narration so compelling? What makes it so polarizing? In this essay, Jen Michalski reflects on the magnetic pull of “you.”

Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation” from our Issue 19.2.

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.]”

Sophia Terazawa reads her poem “O-Graft” from our Issue 18.2.