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Spring 2026 Issue 28.1

Featuring essays by Evan Silver, Pamela Alexander, Brenda Lin, Cameron Carr, Mandy Len Catron, Rob Marks, Mikaela Osler, Adele Barker, Mike Nagel, Lee Reilly, Ralph James Savarese, and Patricia Foster.

cover image of issue 28.1 showing an aerial view of the Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake.
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The Ways We Remain

The Ways We Remain

Following Ned’s 2019 death from cancer, his wife, the novelist Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and his graduate school classmate John T. Price resolved to bring his published essays together as a collection (something the writer had planned to do himself but never got to finish)…

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Images of anticipation: VHS snow and TV glow blue, a sealed box of old photos, the back of an envelope, the end of a tunnel, the blind corner of a curvy path, a mirror…

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