In the Current with Jill Mceldowney Issue 22

Dear Reader,

This June, we look back at our Summer 2024 Issue. Issue 22 brought us poems of sunlight, shipwrecks, extinction and resurrection. As we exit spring and embrace the slower pace of tranquil summer months, we take time to admire how our poets and artists have continued to delight us with their talents:

John Gallaher published his full-length collection My Life in Brutalist Architecture with Four Way Books (2024). He also published poems in Heavy Feather Review.           

Ben Cooper published poems in Frontier Poetry and won the 2025 AWP Intro Journal Award for his poem “Exile.”

Susan Muth recently published poems in West Trade Review.

Julia Kooi Talen published poems in Pinhole Poetry and Brink.

Kate Welsh published poems in Only Poems Daily and Tupelo Quarterly.

Brett Griffiths continues to teach at Schoolcraft College and serves as the editor of the MacGuffin, which recently celebrated 40 years.

Sarah Burke published poems in Rust + Moth and the BiCoastal Review.

Ahana Chakrabarti published poems in Beaver Magazine.

Colleen Salisbury published poems in Slipstream (print only) and Vernacular.

C C Russell published poems in No Contact and with The Sunlight Press.

Mary Morris published her full-length collection Lanterns in the Night Market with Texas Review Press (2025), which was an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoeffer Prize in Poetry. This collection was reviewed in the North American Review.                          

Sarah Fawn Montgomery published poetry in Split Rock Review and The Indianapolis Review.

Olivia Jacobson published poems in Club Plum and the Shō Poetry Journal.          

Zeke Shomler published poems in the Stone Poetry Quarterly and Black Horse Review.

Alyssa Jewell’s Creature Constellation was a finalist for the 2025 Southern Indiana Review’s Michael Water’s Poetry Prize. She also won the 2025 Dog Daze Poetry Prize from Blue Earth Review.                                                                                                    
Liz Robbins’ chapbook Backlit won the 2025 Rattle Chapbook Prize and was recently reviewed by Lightwood Press.

Emilee Kinney published poems in the Stonecoast Review and the Artemis Journal.

Meghan Sterling published poems in the Stonecoast Review and the Evergreen Review.                                                                                                                
Lauren Mallett published poems in the Peatsmoke Journal.
                                
Kelly Erin Gray published poems in Hobart Pulp, Bruiser Magazine and Maudlin House.                                                                                                          
Naomi Madlock published poetry in Terrain and Wasafiri.                                   

Rachael Lyon published poems in The Summerset Review and Cider Press Review.

Elya Braden published poetry in The Pine Row Journal, Wildroof Journal and South Florida Poetry Review.                                                                                                     

Julia Lisella published poems in The Common.                                                    

Christopher Faunce published poems in The South Florida Poetry Journal.

Amy Thatcher published poetry in The Chestnut Review and Villain Era Lit.           

Jeremy Rock published poems in Flyway Journal and Cartridge Lit.

Meredith MacLeod Davidson published poems in Petrichor and the Frozen Sea.         

Ana Prundaru published photography in The Adroit Journal and Black Warrior Review.

Nathan Erwin was interviewed by Barrelhouse and published poems in Terrain and Mudroom Magazine.                                                                                                   

Jacob Schepers published poems in Hobart Pulp and published his full-length collection, Ugly Ground Swell Moss with Carbonation Press (2024).                        

Kathryn Merwin published poems in Harpur Palate

Calista Malone published poems in the Greensboro Review (print) as well as Gulf Stream Magazine.                                                                                             

Carson Colenbaugh has recently published poems in the Atlantic, Terrain and Salvation South.                                                      
                                                                                                  
Bryan D Price published poetry in Body Literature and the Dialogist.          

Amanda Russell was interviewed for Poseidon’s Scribe and published her second chapbook of poetry, Processing with Main Street Rag (Fall 2024).                                               

Jo Snow published poems in The Passionfruit Review.

Rachel White published poetry in Thimble Literary Magazine and The Amethyst Review.

Rebekah M Rykiel published poetry in Harpur Palate.                                                   

J B Kalf published poems in Action, Spectacle and Does It Have Pockets?           

Madeline Hernstrom-Hill published a lesson plan with Broadsided Press and is now the art editor for The Shore.

Congratulations to all of our contributors on their accomplishments! We look forward to what you will do next.

Best,

Jill Mceldowney