Summer 2026 (Volume LXXIX, No. 2)

First Prize: The Unmeasurable

by Pegah Ouji

Second Prize: The Nearer Realm

by Rebecca Kilroy

Remembering Emily Grosholz (1950–2026)

by David Mason

Turn, Turn, Tumble: Similes, and Shipwrecks, and the Sea

by Carol Dougherty

Journey to a Novel

by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Guillermo Bleichmar, Trans.

Restos

by Mark Jacobs

Citizens of the Wind; The Salt Waking; A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense; The Extinction of the Dinosaurs

by David Mason

Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy; For the Earth Dwellers

by Brian Culhane

At the Grave of Tiem Duc Bui; Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park; Late Bedtime Story; Camden, 1969 (After Borges)

by Charles Martin

In Wilkins’

by Daniel Tobin

Ascension; Tongue-Tie

by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi

The Deer Mouse Berates Me; Sox in the Underworld

by Joan Murray

My Blue-Eyed Son

by Kevin Cantwell

A Stone for Mark; Blackbirds; Miracle of the Fish

by Jeffrey Harrison

Love Letter to My Apartment

by Michele Herman

Colorful Circle Center Whole

by D. T. Holt

Drawing Room Theater Prospers

by Erick Neher

At the Galleries

by Karen Wilkin

Dancing in New York: Revivals and Renewals

by Marina Harss

The Next New Architecture Thing

by Witold Rybczynski

Renaissance Men

by Brooke Allen

Our Worlds in Our Words

by Lorna Knowles Blake

Trollope Modified

by William H. Pritchard

The Mystery of Muriel Spark

by David Mason

A Delicious Stack

by Louise Marburg

Letter from London

by James Campbell

Notes on Contributors