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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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2025 Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest

2025 Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest

2025 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest Winner!Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest. Though we received many phenomenal essays, we hope you will join us in congratulating this year's winner, as selected by our...

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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging

Dispersals On Plants, Borders and Belonging  Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and BelongingBy Jessica J. Lee288 pp. Catapult, $26.95Released March 2024           In Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the various processes and...

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CRAFT ESSAYS

Middling

Middling

I began teaching about the middle of the essay by accident even though I had been thinking about it for a long time.

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Essaying Is Questioning

Essaying Is Questioning

When I first read Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, eight years after its 2011 publication, I wrote her a letter that began: “From the opening chapter of Darkroom, I knew I had found the book I had been craving for so long…”

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