Due to difficulties in obtaining information in advance of chapbook releases, chapbook listings for the previous month are published at the end of each month. This post contains information about poetry chapbooks that we know about published during February 2026.
Information, including product descriptions, is provided by the publisher and not a critical judgment. If we cover the book on this site, links will be included.
Moonstone Press
Dear Palestine, Emma Goldman-Sherman
These stunning, stark, and unflinching poems are a gesture—a hand extended, a promise kept—but above all, a testimony. Reaching across continents and generations, they offer softness and solidarity, allowing readers to witness firsthand the steadfastness and strength of the Palestinian people. A poet of witness, Emma Goldman-Sherman joins a vital and necessary chorus, guiding readers through horror and humanity to confront the cost of survival. These poems ask us to “invent a new sun,” reimagining healing, bridging distance, and insisting, unequivocally, that no one is left behind. —Kelly Grace Thomas, author of Boat Burned (YesYes Books)
Small Harbor Publishing
The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea, Rohanna Ssanyu
Chapbook Poem: Found in the African Art Collection… by Rohanna Ssanyu
The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea follows a second-generation daughter as she seeks to understand her mother and, consequently, the ugliness of the marabou. Written by Ugandan-American poet and teacher, Rohanna Ssanyu, the collection examines the dispersal of a family and the fate of its children. Through the busy streets of the capital, in airmail envelopes, and on big crooked letters, The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea finds beauty in a present viewed through bloodshot eyes. The stork and its counterpart, the crane, with its crown of gold sequins and tail of button strings, find solace.
The Poetry Box
Lucy the Elephant Wins in a Landslide, John Arthur
Being alive is strange. Growing up a few miles from a giant elephant that was a hotel and is now a National Historic Landmark can help put things into perspective. Lucy the Elephant Wins in a Landslide is a coming-of-age story for the deeply perplexed. It is a love letter to New Jersey from someone who has lived and worked all over the Garden State. It is an abandoned Ferris Wheel overlooking a run-down casino. It is a seagull stealing what you thought was your last cheese fry, until you look in the bucket and find with great joy there’s still one more.
Wesleyan University Press
It Looks Like a Man, Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh’s new collection of poems joins her fourteen previously published volumes of poetry, essays, and translation (one a Pulitzer Prize finalist and another designated a Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly). With her 2010 MacArthur Fellowship she funded a program of restorative getaways for unpaid family caregivers. An abiding theme throughout McHugh’s work has been the essential muteness of individual experience as it is remarked from greatening distances of time, space, or feeling. In view of that gulf between experience and expression, the words of characters here suggest the many ways a human being can be said to look.
Rockwood Press
Banana Pancakes, Annalisa Hansford
In this moving sequence of poems, Annalisa Hansford conveys betrayal, loss, and potential redemption through an agile reworking of the lyric and a reimagining of traditional and new poetic forms. These poems revisit former relationships “where every version of myself wants / what I can’t have,” and reveal the poet’s candid longing for love and absolution in language that is rich and evocative. In this second collection, Hansford’s arresting voice conveys an incontrovertible wisdom and grace that demonstrates, despite the inevitability of forfeiture and change, how close observation of the world’s largesse—be it avocado toast, a postcard, or the first taste of samphire—is potential for reconciliation and joy; for memories that are, once again, “fresh like a bundle of lavender.” —Christine Casson, author of After the First World
Vinegar Press
Women Making Soup Together, Rachel Turney
“With Women Making Soup Together, I examine themes of womanhood like longing, being misunderstood, and rape. I also address the painful reality of strained connections between women. I have included an ode to the egg and poems about history, rooted in women’s traditional roles, to reclaim our identity. I dabbled in surrealism with some pieces, a genre of poetry that has historically lacked the voice of women. My hope for this project is that readers will find connection, inspiration, and feel understood through the pages. This book also calls on us to stand together in these critical times and seek out allies who support the equity of womxn and all humans worldwide.” – Dr. Rachel Turney
Bottlecap Press
Boots of Spanish Leather, Steven Joyce
In Boots of Spanish Leather, Steven Joyce explores the thresholds between memory and departure, aging and desire, presence and disappearance. These poems move through rooms halfemptied, shorelines redolent of Greek myth, and landscapes where birds, ghosts, and historical figures flicker into view. Whether contemplating the quiet devastations of illness, the angular ache of Schiele’s canvases, or the small rituals that bind us to one another, the collection reveals how the ordinary becomes luminous when held up to the light of reflection.
Across scenes as intimate as a bedside vigil and as expansive as Hadrian’s Wall, Joyce’s speakers navigate the stubborn beauty and sorrow of lives in transition. The poems hum with elegy, wit, and a restless tenderness, inviting readers to sit in the halflight where love falters, endures, and sometimes slips away. Boots of Spanish Leather is a meditation on parting and persistence—on what we carry, what we leave behind, and the quiet music that rises from the spaces between.
A Half-Full Glass, Roman Svirsky
A Half-Full Glass is a chapbook of observant, humorous poems rooted in daily rituals and small reckonings—time spent in traffic, shared drinks, aging bodies, changing seasons, and the quiet negotiations of modern life. These poems favor clarity and rhythm, finding comedy and meaning in moments that are often overlooked or dismissed as routine.
Moving between social scenes and private reflection, the collection explores aging, companionship, creativity, and perspective without nostalgia or complaint. Whether walking through New York, monitoring sleep, watching a child cross a milestone, or simply noticing how time moves, the poems maintain a light touch while allowing emotional depth to surface naturally.
Wild Work, Ellen L. Henning
Wild Work is a grief kaleidoscope, a rainbow, a reckoning. In this compact collection, Ellen L. Henning writes with a woman’s relish and a bold honesty almost brazen. Her work takes the reader to the edges of obliteration and creation, sharing visceral experiences—and their imagined underbelly—as a mother, daughter, and human being.
From the hospital’s family room to her father’s hospice bed, from a bar bathroom to Chicagoland’s Jewel Osco, from the kitchen to the dance floor to her daydreams—these poems map an unruly grief journey. Henning writes her way through, leaving behind a tenacious celebration of survival through birth, death, and loss. Wild Work asks about the afterlife, speculating on a myriad of saviors, while rooting us right back to the everyday. In a voice accessible and incendiary, Wild Work invites partaking parties to remember—if you are reading this, you are alive.
I Drift to Dreamland, Adam C. Ferkin
I Drift to Dreamland is Adam C. Ferkin’s first chapbook. In this collection, the author hopes to take the reader on a visual journey. The overarching narrative follows a dreamlike sequence, where the main character faces several trials. Surreal imagery is used to tell the story of wading through life challenges, and ultimately striving towards hope. Haiku are interwoven between pieces to foster a greater sense of being in a dream.
The author is quite passionate about surreal poetry and abstract imagery. He believes that these concepts are greatly useful for tapping into very real human experiences, which are evident throughout the collection. He was greatly inspired by artist, poet, and friend, Robert Pomerhn, in putting together this manuscript. Adam hopes to join his friend in the lifelong pursuit of creating art for the soul.
Do Not Think It Strange, kris hernandez
Do Not Think It Strange explores how the body learns to endure under pressure—from family, faith, illness, love, and the systems meant to protect us. These poems move through inheritance, desire, addiction, and moral consequence, tracing how harm can be taught, repeated, and carried forward across a lifetime. The collection lingers in the moments where care and control blur, asking what it means to live with the weight of what cannot be undone.
At once intimate and unsparing, the poems confront devotion, vulnerability, and the risk of wanting connection in a world that often demands endurance. Desire becomes both refuge and danger; love becomes a force capable of tenderness and harm in equal measure. With sharp imagery and emotional restraint, kris hernandez’s Do Not Think It Strange invites readers into a landscape shaped by survival, memory, and the complicated reality of living with the consequences of what has been learned.
Doomscroll, Corey Stano
In Doomscroll, Corey Stano presents a frenetic meditation on contemporary culture. Stano writes to give life to the anxieties that exist between the screen of every smartphone and the root of every grey hair. With queer identity at its heart, this collection shows how the relentless churn of everyday horror runs parallel to the banality of adulthood.
With writing that varies from lyrical to viciously sparse, Stano creates a feeling of whiplash familiar to the social media age. While the poems range from reflections on hyper-local events to universal fears, Doomscroll encapsulates the vacillating extremes of contemporary life.
Dog Custody, Miles Matis-Uzzo
Dog Custody is an expedition into the interiors of attachment, grief, and power-play that arise between two people. Asking for a divorce and taking the dog. Or maybe you are the dog stuck in the middle, stuck in the paradox between the freedom of wildness and the deep yearning for a home.
In the pages of their debut chapbook, Matis-Uzzo says, “my dog is also a wolf: submissive and unruly, obedient and howling.” Each poem taps into a feral frequency that goes for the jugular, channeling the raw emotional experiences that inhabit intimacy, love, and loss.
Poems Saved in Vintage Bottles, Rubeena Anjum
The same old themes of life, love, and loss are revisited in this collection. Through vivid imagery, Rubeena Anjum leads readers along winding paths of meter and rhyme, illuminating the overt and subtle layers of day-to-day emotions. Each villanelle and sonnet is artfully composed, with words flowing effortlessly toward a collective yearning for fulfillment. So far, so good. I have nothing to say/What went wrong then—you want to argue now/Say what you feel, sigh, sob; smile seems okay. Love, with its dizzying highs and crushing lows, is portrayed using life’s imperfections as a frame of reference. to love, to lose, to let go, that one art/what life is, known in bits, in breaks, mistakes/ shed light—glass road appears, renewed, I start.
Finishing Line Press
Sweet Blisters, Phyllis St George
Sweet Blisters is a testament to the healing power of the writing life. Phyllis’s poems reflect the jarring clash of simple childhood joys with the nightly violation of incest, sharing both the tender side of family relationships and the hidden cruelty that only those closest to us can deliver. With playful humor and controlled rage, with free verse and forms such as the sonnet and ghazal, and with the voices of child, teenager, lover, lesbian, and writer, the poems take us on a journey through her life and how writing saved her.
Remaking, KM Kramer
Remaking illustrates the art of resilience. In her debut poetry collection, KM Kramer explores the process of transcendence over loss, grief, and violence. An owl who escapes from the zoo rediscovers freedom; myths get stripped like husks off corn; oak trees promise “fat acorns” for new beginnings; and Icarus pivots, avoiding ruin. Collaborative artwork by Joanna Baker depicts how we can journey to beauty from destruction.
BRONXVILLE, Lee Stockdale
Bronxville, New York. Where Lee Stockdale finds shelter after a hurricane of tragedy blows his family out of Miami. As the new kid in town, he tries to fit in under the roof of a stepfather who regrets he came with the package. The secret of his father’s suicide, wrapped around the universal pain of being thirteen, assures that life pretty much sucks, and Stockdale rides through Bronxville on a Depression Bus until he grasps that he lives a train ride away from The Greatest City in the World. Bronxville—he claims it as home, whether or not it claims him.
Nothing Good Will Get Away, Chelsea Dodds
When the speaker in NOTHING GOOD WILL GET AWAY meets a real-life version of the love interest she has written into all of her stories since she was a teenager, she must wrestle with whether this is a fated relationship or a chance encounter that will make for a good story but leave her heartbroken. From the Adirondack Mountains in New York to Steinbeck Country in California and back to the East Coast, these narrative poems explore love, longing, loss, and what it means to let oneself be truly vulnerable.
The Hoarder, Logan Chace
The Hoarder is a series of prose poems, telling the story of a sixteen-year-old boy’s attempt to sift through the fallout of an older woman’s hoarding issues over the course of one summer. It is told from the perspective of the boy, Ben Godfrey, as well as the older woman, Maggie Harper. Ben lives in a college town and has been hired to help clean out Maggie’s house and barn. While rifling through this mess, he is also grappling with the fact that he is falling in love with his best friend and trying to navigate through the teenage world of hormones, hard work, and uncertainty. Maggie’s house and property, meanwhile, have been deteriorating just as her life has been crumbling around her. When he was just sixteen himself, Sammy, Maggie’s son, committed suicide. As a result, her marriage with her husband, Walter, falls apart, and Maggie is left alone to collect memories, heartache, and, most of all, junk. Maggie and Ben learn a lot from their shared experience, and though nothing can really change a person or a place, they find some peace and solace in each other, as questions to some of life’s biggest mysteries begin to come into focus.
Solar Music, Elaine Alarcon
When Elaine Alarcon first encountered Remdios Varo’s Surrealistic painting, “Solar Music,” at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, it was a revelation. The painting spoke of the interior journeys of freedom women longed for through fantasical lanscapes truer and realer than those provided by Spanish society at the time. For Elaine, Varo’s painting expresses secret connections to her own hidden past implicit in travel. The poems in Solar Music seek to explore these revelations.
Kindlings, Rachel Linnea Brown
A fire must wink into existence before it roars. Small, wry, quick to light, and eager to burn, the poems of Kindlings elevate the ephemeral, exposing the white-hot intensity roiling within.
Rachel Linnea Brown is a poet, crafter, teacher, archival scholar, hiker, and hobby farmer whose life and work are infused by Midwestern sounds, beings, seasons, and vistas.
Stroke, Stroke, Marcella Remund
Stroke, Stroke is about experiencing a strokethe symptoms, challenges, and perplexities before, during, and after having a stroke, and the often long recovery afterward. Told with a sense of wonder and often humor, Stroke, Stroke finds the humor, beauty, and acceptance in a sudden betrayal of the body.
Marcella Remund is originally from Omaha, Nebraska, transplanted to South Dakota.
Through the Wreckage, J.T. Trigonis
Through the Wreckage is a Ballardian car crash scraping along the Jersey barrier between brokenness and a hard-sought salvation we spend a lifetime searching for. J.T. Trigonis navigates us through dimly-lit diners and noir-shaded roadside motels where loss sings in the key of urban sirens and nostalgia is as relentless as time. This collection of poems combs through the wreckage of past selves and the myriad forms of ghosts we long to let linger but must ultimately leave behind to find redemption and meaning in the faint neon glow of the poetic––and all-too-human––spirit.
sample.spring, Margaret LeMay
The poems in sample.spring concern journey, enacting its inherent and cyclic navigation of vulnerability and knowledge. The collection is a meditation on interiors and exteriors, stability and visibility, and how these impact identity and agency. sample.spring is an assertion of having lived and living: living years, living under different conditions, and living with courage and love.
What I Didn’t Give to Goodwill, Ginger Graziano
“Hold out the fired bowl of your heart,” Ginger Graziano urges, in What I Didn’t Give to Goodwill. That hard-earned gesture of hope is borne through poems of grief, legacy, and resilience in this strong, three-part collection. Graziano relates the suffering of her son, dying from brain cancer, the strength she secured from a proud, Italian immigrant family, and her renewal of spirit claimed in gardening, a move to a new state, and a necessary balance of society and solitude. The memory of her son powers her determination: “[W]hen moths chew holes in his jackets, / I will see light through the broken threads.” Read these fine poems for their discerning light.
Playthings, Ilan Mochari
In this stunning debut poetry collection, Ilan Mochari explores the natural world and the thoughtless harm—and joy—with which we inhabit it. Candid, vivid, and musical, the poems in Playthings are rousing meditations on subjects ranging from moons to miscarriages, gum trees to Georgia O’Keeffe skulls. Clarity and compassion shine through, as does a world-weary pathos that elevates the riveting material at hand.
Yesterday Echoes, Chris Wood
Yesterday Echoes is a lyrical meditation on memory, heritage, and the sacredness of place. Rooted in the Southern landscape of Kentucky and Tennessee, these poems explore the quiet beauty of everyday life and the enduring presence of those who came before us. With vivid sensory detail and emotional clarity, these poems capture the essence of home, the rhythms of family, and the spiritual threads that bind past to present. From the hum of honeybees in a summer garden to the scent of cherry tobacco curling from a father’s pipe, each poem invites readers into a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Through reflections on childhood, faith, and the passage of time, Yesterday Echoes offers a heartfelt tribute to the people and places that shape us.
Saccades, Paul Long
SACCADES – is a glimpse of the physical world when we capture or catch it in the coroner of our eye. When the gaze gets too intense the subjects recede and what we have then is the in-between, merely a texture or brush that begins a conversation or refers to a moment when. What words can carry these memories? The poems in this collection attempt to build that bridge for the reader.
Morning of the World, Jane Wiseman
It’s the morning of the world. How will you spend it? Go on a journey to experience it all—friends, parents, ancestors, lovers. Above all, the unknowable self. Your journey is made of words, imprecise but paradoxically triumphant, precise but at the same time disappointing, the journey of language that never quite reaches the Promised Land, only—if you’re lucky—lets you look over from the other side. Words are the tools and the materials constructing the human tragedy, the human glory. At the end of the journey, arrive at a place of rest and thanks.
Kitchen Table Midwife of the Dispossessed, ruth mota
Kitchen Table Midwife of the Dispossessed contains poems set in a kitchen venue where memories from around the world are reborn. From the earthy feel of garden produce rises a decade of experiences from northeast Brazil, to a bordertown detention center, to a San Francisco symphony hall where dispossessed figures keep rising.
What Flowers May Come, Sarah Durrand
Rustling and overgrown fields, a persimmon in hand, hazy cross-country train rides, wildflowers of every color. What flowers may come projects dreamy meaning onto the surrounding landscape, revealing the unspoken, biggest meanings behind a life’s smallest moments. Through equal parts playfulness and pondering, wistfulness and whimsy, the author witnesses magic – and through her simple, vivid, and impactful poems, she invites you to witness magic around you, too.
What The World Offers, Daniel Rabuzzi
What The World Offers asks questions about the reliability of memory, plumbing the long shadows of history and the vagaries of remembered love. These poems describe choices that have difficult, sometimes perilous, outcomes, and push the reader to consider what decisions they might make within the poem’s universe. Whether engaging with herons on houseboats or hares at the crossroads, with dragon skulls or the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the poems in What The World Offersl ook for insights beyond our here and now.
The Letter, Greg Jensen
Part meditation, part oracle, part heedless plunge, The Letter is a dialogue with time, death, memory, and the self. These thirty poems ask what it means to live inside a body, to love, to grieve, to search for meaning, to grow older, to speak back to the void. The Letter is a reckoning with human frailty and our never ending desire to hold onto experience in a universe that ceaselessly wrests it from us. From scenes in a hospital in which a patient waits for a hearing on his sanity to a postmark in Bismarck, North Dakota, this work invites the reader to step into a space where words become bridges between time and timelessness, where memory, body, and spirit meet.
Urban Trout, Jevin Lee Albuquerque
Urban Trout is a glimpse into the life of Jevin Lee Albuquerque, a poet consumed by jazz and the art of fly-fishing. Having found his voice studying, listening, reading alongside the many great poets in North Beach, San Francisco, he hit the road in search of trout; along the way, finding poetry in the dark crevices where it thrives, absorbing rhythm, beauty, flowing streams, of jazz, in New Orleans. His mentor often said “everyone is a poet.” Albuquerque agrees. Poetry lives everywhere.
Learning How to Drown, Joseph Kerschbaum
Learning How to Drown charts a vivid coming-of-age across the rural Midwest. The poems, rich in narrative texture and lyrical introspection, move through grain silos and third-shift factories, train trestles and back-porch folklore. Here, ordinary days tilt toward the mythic. Kerschbaum’s speaker navigates small towns and night shifts, witnessing boys daring themselves into adulthood, families weathering hardship, and the stubborn ghosts of what refuses to burn. With tough tenderness and clear-eyed music, these poems turn detasseling cuts, Walmart parking lot midnights, and machine rooms into moments of reckoning. They examine how to love a place you also need to leave. Memory keeps scratching at the door. The poems ask how to swim past fear when the shore disappears. The result is a striking portrait of endurance and the luminous, fragile lives that refuse to be forgotten.
The Forager’s Exit, Victoria Anderson
Victoria Anderson is a Chicago writer. She received her doctorate in American literature with a creative writing concentration from Binghamton University, New York, and has published three books of poetry:This Country or That, Vorticity, and The Hour Box. She has been published in over sixty literary journals, including (b)OINK, Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, Atlanta Review, AGNI, American Short Fiction, and Berkeley Fiction Review. She is a three-time recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from Illinois Arts Council, and has had residencies at Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Vicky is retired from Loyola University Chicago, where she taught poetry and directed the Writing Program. She divides her time between Chicago, where she writes, and Michigan, where she keeps bees.
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Contents
“Managing [my husband’s] pain became fraught in the last week of his life when he could no longer swallow the medications that had kept him comfortable…The poem explores the vulnerability and intimacy found in such a crisis.” Read five poems by Amy Riddell, our first biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Reading the Body.”
Chapbook Poem: Aphasia by Robert Allen
“Ultimately this is a poem of love and recognition, of finding the right words for the right listener, to the one who listens and understands.” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for January 2026, “Aphasia,” along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: The Egg of Anything by Paula Bohince
“The poem is filled with moments of ‘O’ sounds and ‘Ah’ sounds, mimicking the O of the egg and the Ah of the open jaw. I like that the poem is compact in its little form, also a bit egg-like.” Read the featured Excerpt Poem of the Month for January 2026, “The Egg of Anything” from A Violence by Paula Bohince, along with a few words from the poet.
Three Poems by Abraham Aondoana
“Instead of providing any solution to the issue, the poem is ready to be open to the ambiguity that can enable doubt, tenderness, and resilience to co-exist. By so doing, it points to survival not as victory, but as endurance…” Read three poems by Abraham Aondoana, our second biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Surviving a Country That is Also a Question.”
Five Poems by Colleen S. Harris
“I am always struck by the juxtaposition of the biology and science of illness versus the life of the person living with it, and how those two spheres constantly interrupt and flow into each other.” Read five poems by Colleen S. Harris, our third biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Inflammation As Girl.”
Chapbook Poem: Offering by Richard Jordan
“In my mind, the narrator recognizes that Harper’s fate could very well have been his own, and I hope that readers can relate, in the sense that we all have done reckless things, especially in our youth…” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for February 2026, “Offering,” along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: Passage by Paul Hostovsky
“When she’d call me on the weekends, I was high half the time, impatient with her, and unforthcoming. It’s one of my greatest regrets. The tears well up just thinking about it. I didn’t grieve her properly. I’m grieving her now.” Read the featured Excerpt Poem of the Month for February 2026, “Passage” from Perfect Disappearances by Paul Hostovsky, along with a few words from the poet.
“The poem captures us both there in the dreaded check up appointment: me clenching crinkling paper, scared of what the lab reports say; him…lab reports in hand like some mysterious document…” Read three poems by Mary Whitlow, our fourth biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Examined.”
February ’26: Section Editors & Staff Wanted
Editor Aiden Hunt begins year three with a call for applications for section editors and other editorial and production staff in this editor’s note.
“I am most comfortable in a chair with a pen looking at nature through a window. And yet nature is something my mind is also totally immersed in…So I think it’s a bit of a paradox.” Poet Lisa Low discusses her latest chapbook in this interview with Contributor Saudamini Siegrist.
“My work has always found a focus in the bodies of women, and watching the mix of strength and fragility in women as they face illness and pain has been a topic that I keep coming back to.” Read four poems by Betty Stanton, our fifth biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Vein Song.”
Chapbook Poem: Found in the African Art Collection… by Rohanna Ssanyu
“It is laborious to hold on to a culture removed, one for which I am a perpetual novice. I do, however, try, and I bring my children with me. … Can this space, this culture, only be ours if cut up and reimagined?” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for March 2026, “Found in the African Art Collection of a New Haven Gallery After the Guard Asks Whether My Son Knows the Rules,” along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: Targeted by Frances Klein
“The poem focuses specifically on the way that online algorithms ‘read’ a person’s internet history related to pregnancy or trying to conceive, then deliver the most painful possible ads…” Read the featured Excerpt Poem of the Month for March 2026, “Targeted” from Another Life by Frances Klein, along with a few words from the poet.
“Trying to conjure a word sound that doesn’t exist in English creates a scaffolding for poetic reconstruction of the extractive colonial violence that rendered the phooti karpas cotton extinct.” Read three poems by Sophia Naz, our six biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Sun Sonata.”