Issue 18.2

 

Literary Matters 18.2

(Spring, 2026)

Editor’s Note:

Emily Grace: This Seedling-Love

Poetry

Jason Barry: Broad Stripes
T. O. Brandon: An Odyssey Triptych
Amber Graci: Hypoxia
Amber Graci: American Spirit
James Harris: For Example
James Harris: Made Available
Isabella Hsu: The Problem of Evil
Dan Power: Don’t Worry
Mary Jo Salter: Two Refusals

Essay

John Savoie: Short Story, Deep Treasures: Biblical Allusion in “The Gift of the Magi”

Translations

Alice Allan: 10 Poems (from the Japanese of Princess Shikishi)
Forester McClatchey: Cuicapeuhcayotl (Song of the Beginning) (from the Nahuatl of Anonymous Aztec)
Robert Schechter: Southern Air Looked for in England (from the Spanish of Rafael Alberti)
Robert Schechter: Piano Practice (from the German of Rainer Marie Rilke)

Reviews

T.R. Hummer: Rather Than Nothing: On David Baker’s Transit: Poems
Kirsten Norrie: On Luke Allan’s Sweet Dreams, the Sea 

Interview

Nicholas Pierce: Interview with Forester McClatchey 
Forester McClatchey: Adam’s Task 
Forester McClatchey: Smokejumper

Poetry

Taylor Light: Murmur
Thomas Mixon: At First Blush
Kristján Norge: Until the Twilight Fails
Belinda Rule: Invoice Follow-up
Belinda Rule: Manhood
Matt Wall: cherry blossoms
James Bradly Wells: Permacultural
Keir Willett: As Consolation

Essay

Michael Autrey: Henri Cole’s Bestiary

Translations

Amit Majmudar: Arjuna Witnesses the Universal Form (from the Sanskrit of Vyasa)
Ethan McGuire: A Poem Written at the Huayan Temple in Yudu (from the Traditional Chinese of Yue Fei)
Tim Tibbitts: Circumspection (from the French of Paul Verlaine)

Reviews

Thomas Finan: Our Sense of Gratitude: For Christopher Ricks, Autrey (ed.)(review)
Eva Wynn: Getting Lost in the Novel: Strategic Confusion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Auerbach (review)

Special Feature: Images and Words On the Power of Movies as Popular Poetry

Ethan McGuire: The Persistence of Popular Poetry: Zhang Yimou and the Mythological Imagination