COLUMNS

Rise
Aishwarya Vardhana on how the Israel-Palestine conflict reflects the urgent need for moral clarity by the United States

From the Inside
Marina Bueno on moving past guilt to rehabilitation and finding family behind bars

Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on the power of one’s own name and helping his daughter claim her own identity

The Traveler
Tim Clark on visiting ghost country, the powerful act of volunteering and the humanity of a festival

Soapbox
Mike Hembury on the lengthening shadows of facism and climate change and the urgent need and possibility of reversing these trends
6 YEARS OF THE WILD WORD
FICTION

Arleigh Rodgers
Arleigh Rodgers’s flash fiction story ‘Resonance’

Finnian Burnett
Finnian Burnett’s flash fiction story ‘The Bird Thou Never Were’

Julie Runacres
Julie Runacres’s flash fiction story ‘Thames Path’

Sara Dykins
Sara Dykin’s flash fiction story ‘From Her Shadow’

Sheree Shatsky
Sheree Shatsky’s flash fiction story ‘Shadowed’
POETRY

Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz’s poems ‘Sorrow’ and ‘A Fulfilled Life’

George Franklin
George Franklin’s poems ‘Watching a Hurricane Pass to the West’, ‘In Bogotá’, and ‘What We Know, What We Can’t Know’

John Savoie
John Savoie’s poems ‘Candlelight Service’, ‘Duende at Dawn’, and ‘Old House’

J.M. Summers
J.M. Summers’s poem ‘There it is’

Matt Duffy
Matt Duffy’s poem ‘Mendocino’

Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas’s poem ‘Cotán’
POETRY REVIEWS

Review of ‘A “Sonetto” for the Poetic World’
Review of A “Sonetto” for the Poetic World by Koshy AV

Review of ‘Contrapasso’
Review of Alexandra Fössinger’s poetry collection ‘Contrapasso’
WHAT WE LOVE
Nina Hynes song ‘Looking For You’ from her new album ZAP! Buy here.
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney
Music online with Mick Hembury and Jenka Bühler
Yin Yoga in your sitting room with Erinbell Fanore
Rufus Coates & Jess Smith’s ‘Modern Day Cathedral’
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