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About the cover and photographer
A Great Gray Owl at Lake Hood in Anchorage, 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
When We Lived on Land, Amy Benson
Rome, Catherine Kim
I Would Move to Mozambique, Katherine D. Stutzman
Day Three, Eion Connolly
Outside the Window, Maria Kuznetsova
With Me in the Voiceless Air, Courtney Angela Brkic
A History of Screaming, Wendy BooydeGraaff
The Land of the Fit, Beth Staples
Pulled-Pork Courtney, Michael Czyzniejewski
You Must Change Your Life, Jeremy T. Wilson
ESSAYS
No Pets Allowed, Joan Murray
Creosote, Andrew Porter
A Pear-Tree Story, Michael O’Brien
Creosote, Alice Hatcher
Marl, Cary Holladay
ESSAYS
What Happened?, Joyce Dehli
Another Kind of Weather, Heather Sellers
Art History, Tom Kizzia
What Is the Point of Literature If It Can’t Bring People Back from the Dead, Debbie Urbanski
POEMS
Even This Late the Bones of the Body Shine, Alison Jarvis
The Pattern of Light on Stone, Margaret Mackinnon
Warning, Sara Eliza Johnson
A Token for Closeness, John A. Nieves
Theories of Wanting, Rebecca Macijeski
Take the Body, Brandel France de Bravo
Ekstasis, Lauren Camp
How to Care for Your Misery, Emily Skaja
Was My Marriage to Poetry Arranged?, Michael Montlack
Post-Truth, Richard Spilman
Maggie: A Romance, Michael Waters
Remake, Brian Komei Dempster
Dear O –, Vandana Khanna
The Bureau of Hunger, Lucas Jorgensen
Under Polyethylene, Benjamin Grossberg
On the Mandela Effect, Rosebud Ben-Oni
Observing the First Photographed Human, Masin Persina
Fog, Jennifer Stewart Miller
Indigofera, Catherine Pierce
You Have the Right to Rename Silence, Craig van Rooyen