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Three voices, one killer issue! 🔥 Did you know that IALA member Jen Siraganian and advisory board members Gregory Djanikian and Lory Bedikian all have poems featured in New Ohio Review Issue 35? Don't miss this triple threat. Read their work now: newohioreview.org

"Death’s inevitability / means as much to me / as the bone-dry bottle of pinot noir / I drained solo under the blood moon" from "Blood Moon Blues" by johnny cate. newohioreview.org/2024/11/20/blo…

"Suffice it to say we’re all that we have. We’re tagged. We’re it, / despite the occasional monoliths that pop up in Nevada deserts / begging us to believe we host astral visitors..." from "This Is It" by John Hodgen newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/thi…

"Is it worse to recollect or forget? // I wonder if this dog will get lost. / Will it skulk from yard to yard / or stand at the fence, yelping / and howling at nothing?" From "Stay" by Robin Rosen Chang newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/sta…

"Someone told me once / that a cardinal holds a soul of someone lost: red, tufting. / & every day for two years / cardinals descended / on the locust tree, / the only one in the backyard." From "Birdcall" by Kelan Lee newohioreview.org/2025/03/02/bir…

"...If I were to paint it / with tempera on wet gesso, on a wall / in some palace chamber, it would be / a man carrying his daughter / who is holding a lantern for him." From "Small Project" by William Wenthe newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/sma…

"...You’re with me, / you say, and this is the only way / to get down to the ground. / She doesn’t believe you, / probably because this / is not her blue coat and she knows/ she is dead..." From "It's Like This Every Night by Sally Rosen Kindred newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/its…

"...I’m forty-five, / and so, somewhere, is he, / and the man-boy out there / with his latte and Nietzsche / must be in his early twenties, / the same as Adam in my dorm / about to play me the Pixies" From "My College Boyfriend Is at Bolt Coffee" by Julie Danho

"I had developed an urge to dig. It was a fantasy of detachment: asexual, dark, isolated. I took to it the way a person may take to a new job or a new house in a faraway state where they hope to reemerge unrecognizable." From "Dirt" by Maria McLeod newohioreview.org/2025/03/03/dir…

"He was adamant— / I am as fit as a mountain range! / Though Frank may have suffered mania / from too much weightlifting. / Frank bullied his moods. / If he woke up feeling angry at the world / he rowed the demons out in his kayak..." From "Frank Buys Groceries" by David Dodd Lee

"...the sky turned gray / as if it were going to thunder and rain / though it never did, / what a turnaround. // Sometimes it’s all you need, / a little reprieve, a surprise / to make you think / it’s not all ruthless..." From "In the Midst of It" by Gregory Djanikian

"I ask him how to safeguard against incessant rupture. / Unhobble the horses and sing the old songs, he replies. / And how to forgive a priest? / He does not swivel his body to me, seems isolate. / A soundless blackout ensues." From "Nazarene Dream" by Joanne Dominique Dwyer

"When she turned her eye to me, her pupil was constricted / to a black prick, a period of fear in its bloodshot context, / and I felt my youth being drawn out of me like a drag." From "The Smoker" by Johnny Cate newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/the…

"I have left the island, but it sticks in my bones. It is place of unashamed beauty, a rough parade of mountains running down to the ocean, and moorland that whistles white with bog cotton all summer long." From "Fruiting Bodies" by Rose Skelton newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/fru…

"May Death die in a library sumptuous, vast as Parnassus among copper fields and forests of urns. May he die hearing there’s no such author as Life, that Life is pure fiction, a story, a poem" From "Poem for Emily Dickinson..." by John Hodgens newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/poe…

"...I’m the wheezy ghost / haunting a plastic suit of armor, the unshriven soul // expiring within an infidel. My dreams run antiseptic, anachronistic..." From "Self-Portrait After Three Years in Outer Space" by Michael Derrick Hudson newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/sel…

"She sleeps and sweats and dreams, harsh dreams with knives and bruises and then the weapons fade away, the blood dries up..." From "Mothers in the World Above and Below" by Abby Horowitz newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/mot…

The latest summer online exclusive from New Ohio Review is now available! newohioreview.org The issue includes featured art by Stephen Reichert, poems from Laura Vitcova and Natalie Taylor; fiction from Dena Pruett, and an essay from Farah Barqawi فرح. We hope you enjoy.

"Night-blooming jasmine is fertilized at night. / Can you smell it yet? // The little bear in her arms is still." From "Hospital in Blue Dark" by Deborah Allbritain Featured Art: “Estuary” by Mateo Galvano newohioreview.org/2025/03/03/hos…