In the Current with Jill Mceldowney Issue 23
Dear Reader,
In the midst of enduring what we hope to be the last heat wave before Fall, we take a moment to revisit our poets and writers featured in our Autumn 2024 issue. Issue 23 was rich in anthropological poetry, elegizing the relics of another year, pacing onward toward its end.
And so, as Summer winds to a close and we ready ourselves for Autumn, we invite you to look back with us on our contributors’ recent accomplishments:
Abigail Cloud was interviewed in Mid American Review and published poems in Passages North and The American Poetry Review.
Emma Bolden published her memoir Tiger in the Cage with Soft Skull Press and her fourth collection, God Elegy, is forthcoming from Boa Editions in Spring 2028.
Melissa Holm Shoemake published poems in Collateral Journal and Harpur Palate.
Kashawn Taylor’s full-length collection subhuman was published by Wayfarer Books in 2025 and he published poems in Poetry Magazine.
Dylan Harbison published poems in Muzzle Magazine, The Rumpus and The Offing.
Annabel Li published fiction in The Adroit Journal.
Cheryl Chen recently published poems in Art Wife Magazine and was featured in the League of Canadian Poets.
Amy DeBellis’ debut novel All Our Tomorrows, published in 2025 by Clash Books, was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. Her novella, The Widening Gyre, was published by Lanternfish Press in 2026.
Matthew Wood has continued to share poetry across social media platforms.
I Echo published poetry in Isele Magazine and Dust Poetry Magazine.
Michael Boccardo published poems in The Inflectionist Review, Verse Daily and Plume Poetry.
Brian Chan published poems in Split Lip Magazine.
Chris Brunk published work in River Teeth (print).
Margaret Malochleb published poems in Cordite Poetry Review, Rust & Moth and Tupelo Quarterly.
Ash Bowen’s collection Other Edens was recently published by Texas A&M University Press and has published poetry in Action, Spectacle.
Leia K Bradley published poems in Poetry Magazine, Southeast Review and Diagram.
Taylor Hamann Los published poems in Sweet Lit and The Chestnut Review.
Charles Hensler published poems in Barren Magazine and West Trade Review.
Gus Peterson published his debut collection Male Pattern with Finishing Line Press in 2025, and published poems in The Paddock Review and Hole in the Head Review.
Veronica Kornberg published poems in the Baltimore Review and won the 2025 Wandering Aengus Award for Poetry for her collection Strange Gift.
Brooks Lampe recently published poetry in The Dewdrop and published the collection Sesquipedalian Rain Chant with Ink & Ribbon Press.
Marko Capoferri was featured in Sequestrum Literature & Art and published work in The Pulp and the Exphrastic Review.
Cam McGlynn published poems in the Sunlight Press and Across the Margin.
Guo Feifei published poetry in Palette Poetry.
Sofia Bagdade published poetry in ONE ART, the Amsterdam Review and Spectra Poets.
Jane Feinsod published poems in Cleaver Magazine and the Sonora Review.
Talia Pinzari published poems in Mulberry Lit, West Trade Review and ONE ART.
Christy Ku recently published poems in Frontier Poetry.
Catherine Redford was featured by the Forward Arts Foundation and has published her collection The Way Water Held Me with the Emma Press.
Wren Donovan recently published poems in Stone Circle Review and Orange Blossom Review.
Alix Perry published poems in Feral, Corporeal Lit Magazine and Stone of Madness Press.
Stephanie Karas recently published poetry in Eclectica Magazine.
Jeffrey Kingman published poetry in the Penmen Review.
Vanessa Y Niu recently published poetry in Across the Margin, The Passionfruit Review and was interviewed in Yellow Arrow Publishing’s journal of poetry.
Sara J Grossman was named the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University.
Yoda Olinyk published poems in ONE ART, Rattle and Solstice Literary Magazine.
Robert L Penick recently published poetry in Sunlight Press.
Cecelia Hagen published poetry in Guesthouse Lit.
Emma Rockenbeck has continued to share artwork across various social media platforms.
Congratulations to all of our authors on your successes!
Regards,
Jill Mceldowney