In this issue, Jason Allen realizes that he may be traveling in the wrong direction, in “A Mile High in Cowboy Country.” A grieving woman, assisted by a special guest, attempts to “revel in the small wonders that fill each moment” in Zoe Boyer‘s “Seymour.” And Artress Bethany White examines the complex DNA of race in language, history, and the very bodies of Black Americans in four poems beginning with “An Extant Slave Receipt, Signed Peter Hairston.” These poems will be included in White’s new collection, Scottish Genes, African Tapestry: Poems, forthcoming from University of Kentucky Press in Spring 2025. 

Images for this issue are still from Nineteen Eighty-Four, a film directed by Michael Redford.