APR volume 55, issue 5

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September/October 2026

p. 4
The Key to All Mythologies
Erin Belieu

p. 6
An Eagerness to Be in the World: An Interview with Erin Belieu
Carl Phillips

p. 11
¡Sigue!
Sarah Gambito

p. 12
I want to want to want to & Other Poems
Diane Seuss

p. 14
The Wheel & Other Poems
Matthew Olzmann

p. 16
Bartimaeus & Other Poems
Spencer Reece

p. 18
Screen Door: A Conversation with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Kali Coleman

p. 23
Persimmons & Other Poems
Ellen Bass

p. 24
Ode to the Last Piece of Bread & Other Poems
Rodrick Minor

p. 26
—And all the creatures therein
Mark Irwin

p. 31
Food for Babies & Other Poems
Dorothea Lasky

p. 32
Jeremiah & Other Poems
Peter Waldor

p. 34
Kiss of the Strawberry Moon: Taking Life Advice on the Art of Mortality from Poems
Emily Carr

p. 37
Charon Was Tired
JoEllen Kwiatek

p. 38
Oil & Grass: A Review of Christopher Kondrich’s Tread Upon
José A. Alcántara

p. 40
Inside the Body & Other Poems
Martin Rock

p. 42
Fading Away into the Lost Lands of Memories Reborn
Shome Dasgupta

p. 44
Fool on Edge & Other Poems
Jana Prikryl

p. 46
This Disordered Life
Tiana Nobile

p. 48
Overwinter
Claire Wahmanholm