Edition No. 16 / Summer 2025

This issue may be out in early summer but it’s ripe with tomatoes and wildflowers, bittersweet roadtrips, empty nests and hopeful birdsong, and unsettled remberances. Even a choose-your-own-adventure! As always our contributors deliver a rich variety of works from around the world, offering us connection, exploration, and solace at a time when it’s urgently needed. And as always we express gratitude to our authors, readers, and all the poets, photographers, painters, and chroniclers out there who find ways to create and engage.

One of the most important purposes of art is to expand what we know and feel to bring us together. We hope you find something in this issue that surprises you, something that feels like home, and most of all something that lets you know you are not alone. Thank you for being here with us.

-Leslie, Mary, and Laura

Cover art: Laura Johnson