VOL. 39, NO. 2 

(Spring/Summer 2023)

CONTENTS

Conversation
Deborah Uman & Jad Abumrad; Felicia Mitchell & Barbara Kingsolver; María del Mar González-González & Guillermo Galindo; Luke Fernandez, David L. Ferro & Janet Abbate, Yu-Jane Yang, Karen Brookens-Bruestle & Ta'u Pupu'a; Ashley Marie Farmer, Ryan Ridge & Tobias Wolff; Adrienne Andrews & Clint Smith; Michael Wutz & Monica Lundy

Poetry
Michelle Bonczek Evory, Connie Wieneke, Radha Marcum, George Such, James Grabill, Joanna Solfrian

Essay
L. Annette Binder, G.D. McFetridge

Fiction
Richie Swanson, Bill Bilverstone, Alice Kinerk

Art  

Monica Lundy

BROWSE THE ISSUE

"Poetry is an avocation, in a sense—something I do purely for pleasure. (Though I’m of course grateful when my poems become books, and readers buy them!) This means I can approach it in a less pragmatic way, not seeing it as daily bread or an engine I have to fix. I’m not required to make it happen every day. It’s more accurate to say that poetry happens to me, on its own terms, like a summer storm or a house fire. Or the coincidence of both on the same day. When a poem arrives, it feels like an apple has fallen into my hand, and I give thanks for the luck involved."

—Barbara Kingsolver

COMMENTARY:

READING THE WEST

Spring/Summer 2023

There are more than 550 species of North American bark beetles, although the extensive damage to conifer forests is done by only 20 species. In western forests they often affect an area larger than the actual wildfire area. Recent outbreaks of beetles are among the most severe in recorded history.

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