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About the cover and photographer
Blueberries and crowberries ripen on the slopes of Mount Baldy in Eagle River, Alaska.
© 2026 Erik Hill
Erik Hill is an Anchorage, Alaska photographer. Following four years at the Kansas City Star, he worked from 1984–2017 as a photographer for the Anchorage Daily News. Among his memorable assignments, his collaboration with two colleagues documenting the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Table of Contents
STORIES
Parade Donkey, Kathleen McNamara
Swimming Pools, Kristopher Jansma
Lessons for Swimming, Kristen-Paige Madonia
Liam and Polly, Julie Diamond
Glass Story, Catherine Niu
The Thousand and One Nights, David Ryan
The Dark Place, Rachel Calnek-Sugin
ESSAYS
Bitches Brew, Jerom Charyn
How to Fool the Blind, Julia Franks
In Situ, Nancy Lord
Breakwater, Rachel Hughes
PLAY
Jon and Suzy, Joan Alexander
POEMS
What the Fig Tree Remembered, L.F. Khouri
Above the Pitch Pines, Doug Ramspeck
The Jar is Long & Clean, Carrie Heimer
Moonmilk, Kathleen Winter
Seeing it, Jeanne Wagner
a sudden chorus, Jill Kitchen
Why?, Kathleen A Wakefield
Skating at the Eden Park Reservoir, Kim Farrar
My Father Lives in the Notifications from My Star Walk App, Janet McNally
Shingles, Gabrielle Frahm-Claffey
Salvation, Gary Fincke
Stones/Pills/Scars, Nicky Beer
Venus Xtravaganza, Alice Kliewer
In Yankee Magazine, Jane Kenyon Says Peonies Aren’t Protestant-Work-Ethic Flowers, Abbie Kiefer
Zillow Habit, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
After Canceling My Life Insurance, Lance Larsen
Annus Mirabilis, Mark Kraushaar
Interview with a Young Cartoonist, Michael Washington
Fayum Portrait, Mark Sullivan
Song Of, Alyse Knorr
Sextet for Paul Klee, Donald Platt