SPRING 2026

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Cover art: Sara Bernstein, Weaving with Words

EDITOR’S NOTE – SPRING 2026:

Welcome to our third All-Poetry Spring Issue, aligning with National Poetry Month, with poems that focus on natural and built environments, often in contrast to current social and political events. Poets use approaches and forms—ode, elegy, self-portrait, ars poetica, sonnets, and a sonnet crown—as containers and vehicles for complex emotional situations. We are reminded of what Mark Doty writes in The Art of Description: “The poet turns to the natural world, pays close attention, and is rewarded with instruction.” From hospitals, houses, mowed fields, and riptides to the lip gloss aisle, a Beethoven symphony, and “a kiss outside a coffee shop,” these poets enlighten us with meditative and philosophical possibilities.

We also think you will enjoy “Luminations: Selections from an Ekphrastic Poetry Project,” which includes eight poems and interviews (conducted by Michael Quattrone) from an event held at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, New York.

We benefit from the deft insight and wit of these thirty-two poets and their synthesis of life’s predicaments, and predict that you will, too.