VOLUME 133 - 2026 - Content and Authors

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Spring 2026 Issue

From the Editor –James Carson
The Snake and the Bird – Rohan Deviah Sajnani
For the Ghosts – IF
The Edge of the Map – Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
Early Bird – Bill Howell
The Mayor of Castro Street – S.A. Leger
Imagine – Katherine Alexandra Harvey
Framing an Escape Artist – Darby Huk
Starling – Athena Serbourne
#tomthomson – Dawn Miller
Mzungu, Part 3: The Sultan’s Retreat – Joe Davies
Terminus – J.A. Wainwright
In Absentia – Eric Wainwright
A Sad Spring – Tanya Tomasch
Raspberry Poem – Maichina Veri
Roxanne – Hamish Guthrie
Moonlight – Susan Glickman
Eggs – Kelsey Andrews
Butterflies and Bats – Emily R. Zarevich
Exiting the Keith Haring Retrospective – Yvette LeClair
Playlist for My Funeral – Katherine Alexandra Harvey
The Guys at the Dump – Anthony Jenkins
It Could Have Been Worse – Gerald Arthur Moore
Perception Deception – Eric J. Stormer
Life and Death – Susan Wismer
Writing from Swift Current – Danielle Hubbard
Visiting the Poet’s Grave – Harold Hoefle
Fishing the South China Sea – Henry Hughes
the jealous balance – Mary Anne Griffiths
Summer – Lucia Lam
Night Is Full – Irene Marques
Twenty / 20 – Jim Leone
Spring Thaw – Lori Vos
Sustenance – Chris Klassen
Untitled with Sleeplessness and Solar Eclipse – Sneha Madhavan-Reese
Askî mîna Kihcikamî – Charity Marvin
Dog Walk After a Storm – Anthony Purdy
Homecoming: São Miguel, Azores, Portugal – Molly McCarron
Maybe – Yves Saint-Pierre
Boredom Triumphant – Andrew J. Simpson
Public Acclaim at the Brewers Retail of Ontario – Gerald Arthur Moore
Hair – Celia Meade
Lost – Courtney Buder
children’s story – Kerry Desrochers
Memory Rooms – P W Jarungpiterah
A Room Made for One – Janine Elias Joukema
Offering – Jill Hambly
Notes – Marshall Bood
Professional Hobo – Jonathan Focht
My Pipéri – Andrew Tzembelicos
Inside and outside cover artwork is from the Reflections series by Rebecca Anweiler