Poetry in this issue:
- Steph Amir, Two little COVID kids
- Dmitry Blizniuk, Let’s See…; The Majestic Moment of Sunset
- Lynne Bronstein, The Aspie Girl’s Love Song
- Donna Dunlop, Walking
- Raye Hendrix, From a Dark Place Waking
- Jeffrey G. Howard, Spina Bifida Princess; A Cosmic Handoff
- Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, a forest; a column of factories
- Judith Krum, Working the Soil; The Grid of Expectations
- Heather Lanier, To the Comic Who Says Her Critic Is Missing a Chromosome; The Christian Ladies Talk Infertility
- Concetta Principe, A Letter to the Future without Snow; My Black Sun
- Laura Sweeney, At the Neurorestorative Prairie After the Great Pumpkin Glow Party
- Ethan Vilu, A Friend Is Leaving Calgary; Amnoon Harbor; What Feels Like An Ending; Arena Storage
- Roy Walhberg, Anyone Home?; Abandoned Man; Blackbirds; Chickadees
- Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Micro Mutant Postcard #183; Micro Mutant Postcard #185
Editor’s Note: Each of these poems is accompanied by an audio recording of the poem. Readers are also encouraged to access the text and audio versions of Ellen Samuels’s poem, “Elegy for a Mask Mandate,” in the introduction / preamble; Victor Enns’s poem, “An Unfinished Romance,” as part of their essay, “Suicidal Ideation and the Importance of Getting Dressed in the Morning“; Clark A. Pomerleau’s poem, “Refuge Niches,” in their manifesto, “Grappling with Shifting and Shifty Alliances in Support of Trans and Disabled Children”; and Visual Poetry by Susan Barry-Schulz in the Art section, all published in this issue of Wordgathering.
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