From the Editor: Willows Wake and Walk Away

As it leads you through a world where healing moves with the patience of river water, may Willows Wake & Walk Away offer you a place to rest, to reckon, & to rise once more.

“Once the need to conquer language fades, the poem has done its work.” (An Interview With Haley Wooning)

There’s a certain shame in confessing we are missing something—or missing within something.

“What happens after we survive the unthinkable?” (Haley Wooning on Willows Wake and Walk Away)

The knights keep watch as I try once again to name what can’t be named, to tell the story that keeps surviving me.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestNovember 4, 2025Haley Wooning

Introducing Sforzando, Hag, & Open Call For Staff Members

Issue VIII will sing to the theme of sforzando (the car-struck bolt of dissonance; the backslide into wreckage; the single note of shattering).

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersJune 17, 2019Tamara Jobe, Alina Stefanescu, Lynsey Morandin, Haley Wooning