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The Current Issue: Spring 2026 Vol. 133 No. 1
Spring 2026 Vol. 133 No. 1
Cover Artwork by Rebecca Anweiler
- 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
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