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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 –
- For the Ghosts –
- The Edge of the Map –
- Early Bird –
- The Mayor of Castro Street –
- Imagine –
- Framing an Escape Artist –
- Starling – Athena Serbourne
- #tomthomson –
- Mzungu, Part 3: The Sultan’s Retreat – Joe Davies
- Terminus –
- In Absentia –
- A Sad Spring –
- Raspberry Poem –
- Roxanne – Hamish Guthrie
- Moonlight –
- Eggs –
- Butterflies and Bats –
- Exiting the Keith Haring Retrospective –
- Playlist for My Funeral –
- The Guys at the Dump –
- It Could Have Been Worse –
- Perception Deception –
- Life and Death –
- Writing from Swift Current –
- Visiting the Poet’s Grave – Harold Hoefle
- Fishing the South China Sea –
- the jealous balance –
- Summer –
- Night Is Full –
- Twenty / 20 –
- Spring Thaw –
- Sustenance –
- Untitled with Sleeplessness and Solar Eclipse –
- Askî mîna Kihcikamî –
- Dog Walk After a Storm –
- Homecoming: São Miguel, Azores, Portugal –
- Maybe –
- Boredom Triumphant –
- Public Acclaim at the Brewers Retail of Ontario –
- Hair –
- Lost –
- children’s story –
- Memory Rooms –
- A Room Made for One – Janine Elias Joukema
- Offering – Jill Hambly
- Notes –
- Professional Hobo –
- My Pipéri –
- Inside and outside cover artwork is from the Reflections series by
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