Dear Iphigenia by Sara Mansfield Taber
I know not what
A mother can say
To a daughter
Who was ripped from her
Before they’d barely begun
The long alliance usual to a mother and child
Roses began by Ann Shenfield
Ann Shenfield works across various media. Her animated films have received local and international prizes including selection to the Berlin film festival. Her poetry has received numerous awards including the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her book A Treatment (Upswell Publishing) was listed in The Age Best Books 2023. She is a practicing psychoanalyst (Candidate) and member of the Australian Center for Psychoanalysis.
Coping Strategy by John Pring
John Pring is a poet and author based in the UK, where he is an MFA candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has poems published or upcoming in Epiphany, The Comstock Review, SoFloPoJo, Poetics, B O D Y, The Passionfruit Review, The King’s English Society, Panorama, Months To Years, and others.
My lyft driver and I by Ariana Suits
Ariana Suits is working towards her master’s degree in history with a focus on Latin America. Her Ecuadorian heritage and graduate studies are common themes in her poetry. She has been published in both academic and literary journals, most recently in The Braver Collective, with work soon to be featured in Scapegoat Review.
Inheritance by Natasha Kinsella
Natasha Kinsella is an Irish poet and essayist drawn to the places where faith, silence, and inheritance converge. Her work listens to what the body remembers when language falters. It has been highly commended in the 2025 Patrick Kavanagh Award, awarded second place in the New Writers Poetry Prize (Anthology), and published in Abridged and Beyond Words magazine.
Late Grief by Nan Cohen
Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poems and the chapbook Thousand-Year-Old Words (2021). She is a past recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches high school in Los Angeles and co-directs the poetry programs of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
oranges by Kathleen Hellen
Kathleen Hellen is the recipient of the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review. Her debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Hellen is the author of The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Meet Me at the Bottom, and two chapbooks.
You Will Accuse Me of Sentimentality by D.M. Black
D.M. Black is a Scottish writer and retired Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. His translation and commentary on Dante’s Paradiso is due out in the NYRB Classics series in August 2025. A collection of psychoanalytic papers, Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective, was published in 2024.
The Ever-Restless Voice by Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award), and The Book of Shores (2024) and Virology (2022), both from Lily Poetry Review Books, is the winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Chapbook Prize. She volunteered for Peace Corps in Ecuador, served on the New England Poetry Club board for many years, and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere.
Like, adults by Ann Shenfield
Ann Shenfield works across a number of media. Her animated films have received various international honors including selection in the Berlin Film Festival. Her poetry has also received numerous awards including the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her poetry book A Treatment (Upswell Publishing) was listed in The Age Best Books of 2023. Last year, she completed a four-year program of clinical and theoretical studies at the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, where she is currently a member.
Six Short Poems on the Iran-Iraq War by Ali Asadollahi
Ali Asadollahi, an award-winning Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association (founded in 1968). His poems and translations are published/forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Consequence, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Guernica Editions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review, and others.
Talking about our feelings by Charles Byrne
Charles Byrne is a writer and teacher in San Francisco with poems published or forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, New American Writing, and 45th Parallel. He has read submissions for RHINO Poetry and Autumn House Press.
Nightmare by Nancy Kuhl
Nancy Kuhl is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently On Hysteria (2022) and Granite (2021). She has studied psychoanalysis as a research fellow at the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is the curator of poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.
Valley With No Name by Sara Shaheen
Sara Shaheen was born in Haifa in May 1996 and raised between the mountains of the Galilee in Northern Occupied Palestine, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is currently doing her clinical internship in Jerusalem, where she lives today. Her passion for writing poetry started when she was ten, and she’s been writing ever since.
a waterbottle in gaza by Sara Shaheen
Sara Shaheen was born in Haifa in May 1996 and raised between the mountains of the Galilee in Northern Occupied Palestine, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is currently doing her clinical internship in Jerusalem, where she lives today. Her passion for writing poetry started when she was ten, and she’s been writing ever since.
AFTER THE SKY RAINED MEN AND HOSPITALS CLOSED DOWN by Katherine J. Williams
Katherine J. Williams, art therapist and clinical psychologist, was the director of the Art Therapy Program at George Washington University, where she is now associate professor emerita. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as Poet Lore, Passager, the Northern Virginia Review, 3rd Wednesday, the Delmarva Review, the Broadkill Review, the Widows’ Handbook, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. Her first poetry collection, Still Life, was published in 2022. Some of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
The Deep Away by Adrienne Pilon
Adrienne Pilon is a writer, editor, teacher, and booster of literary magazines. Recent work appears in The Tiger Moth Review, Susurrus, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, and elsewhere.
On Agadez by Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo is a Nigerian poet and the author of the micro-chapbook Sidiratul Muntaha (Ghost City Press, 2022). His work has been published or is forthcoming at Ambit magazine, Southern Humanities Review, Obsidian: Literature and Art in the African Diaspora, Oxford Review of Books, Stand magazine, Roanoke Review, Louisiana Literature, Olongo Africa, the Citron Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthology. Fasasi explores trans-Mediterranean migration, loss, sex trafficking, and, recently, transatlantic slave trade.
Child Therapy by Laine Derr
Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from J Journal, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.