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The Insistent Island
Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by Paul Vangelisti’s Magra Books in 2019. Republished here with permission.
Review: Open the Floodgates by Nina Schuyler
Review by Kelsey Squire
What might it mean to think like a mountain? Like a prairie? Like a forest?
What about like a river?
Everything Gone All At Once
By Christine H. Chen
It all began with the empty bucket in a corner of the living room that collected the occasional water dripping from the ceiling when Ah Ma was showering on a chair in the bathtub upstairs even though I had suggested that she simply took a bath
Issue 34 | Spring 2026
Prose
Slingin’ Pearl
Itto and Mekiya Outini
In Heaven Everything is Fine
Grant Maierhofer
My Priest Predicted I’d Be a Spy
Garima Chhikara
Poor Thing
Claire Salvato
Hot Tub Paul Hollywood
Garth Robinson
Montara
James Nulick
Two Millimeters In
Jade Kleiner
Little White Monkeys
Manshuk Kali, translated by Slava Faybysh
To Understand Light
Ricardo Bernhard
Apartment 304
Rowan MacDonald
Properly Dark
L.M. Moore
Poetry
witness to the non-arrival
with history trapped inside us
Stacey C. Johnson
New in Town
Alex Dodt
After the Simulation Learns to Listen
David Anson Lee
Missiles Like Low Ceilings
Will Falk
The Sigh of a Man
Davey Long
Abduction III
Jo Ann Clark
Cover Art
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Richard Hanus
Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.
—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”
Found in Translation: Wally Swist
Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original’s mode of intention.
New from Art Beck: Personal Things — essays and poems
A miscellany of essays, poems, translations, and reminiscences that coalesced around a “rather difficult convalescence” that the author now looks back on as the formal introduction to his 85th year.
Review: Ghost in the Rain by Matthew Jakubowski
Review by Kelsey Squire
In Matthew Jakubowski’s chapbook Ghost in the Rain, the story titled “Particles of Death” opens with a question: “What is it that keeps us alive?”
Sign Language
By Gary Fincke
My thirteen-year-old daughter Olivia and I drove out the strip tonight for dinner like we do every week on Wednesday when I have her.
A Princess From Another Land
By Pam Avoledo
A glass slipper is found in a closet, you:
a) Start to sing with the birds.The bluejay tells you it has traveled from a park in Canada. Have you been to Canada, it asks, and you say only once.
Making Room
By Elizabeth Ohga
The pair of jeans that’s never fit, too wasteful to toss it even though you know you’ll never wear it, like all those friends you exchange thumbs and hearts with on social…
A Reliquary Landscape: Màthair Beinn By Eartha Davis
Review by Maureen Alsop
Eartha Davis’ debut collection, màthair beinn, is a reverie, a dream within a semiotic sequence, where language entwines, layers, and unfurls, creating a new dialogue with the natural world.
I Don’t Knock This Time
By Scott Bolendz
I shove open the front door, push past my dick-head brother-in-law. “I want my sister.”
Paul Theroux’s Late Tapestry: The Vanishing Point
Review by Daniel Picker
In this collection, The Vanishing Point, Theroux’s varied life across continents and decades intertwines with contemporary issues, including ancestry, personal identity, and gender identity.