Issue 94

Poetry

Natasha Rao
Kathryn Savage
Esther Lin
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Lisa Hiton
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Patrick Donnelly
Kalehua Kim
Bobby Elliott
Maja Lukic
Maw Shein Win
Emma Aylor
Angela Sorby
David Ly
Michael Bazzett
Shannon Hardwick
Christopher Brean Murray
Preeti Vangani
Abbie Kiefer
Constance Hansen
Matthew Wimberley
Leona Sevick
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Daniel Lassell
Joanne Diaz and Jason Reblando
Mark Spero
Megan J. Arlett
Christopher Gaumer
Romana Iorga

On The Cover: Octavio Quintanilla

“Eremition” (2025)
From the Frontexto series, “Alphabet”
Acrylic on canvas, 40″x40″

Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets (University of Arizona Press).

Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.

Website: https://www.octavioquintanilla.com/
IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla
Twitter: @OctQuintanilla