Introduction to Issue Six

A Note from the Editors

What is home?

This issue reminds us how this is not a simple question with a simple answer. Home can be many things. It can be a physical structure or place. It can be internal, with weavings of longing and loss, even fear. It might be a dream or a space covered in the remnants of a lived day. Or it might enfold us, suddenly and completely, among those we hold and who hold us dear.

Issue Six is a gentle guide through these different experiences of home, some fleeting as a sunset or flakes of snow, others warm as a crowded kitchen, hopeful as a wide window and sprouting green, or haunting as the last stones of a vanished dwelling. We hope you'll spend some time with our contributors' work, allowing them to uproot and ground you in turn, perhaps recalling what feels most like home for you.

— Cara Downey and Erin Calabria

Issue Six image credits: photographs featured in the issue’s table of contents were taken or provided by our contributors with the following exceptions: photo credit Jamie Paul for Lauren Camp’s “Much” and Eleanor Rose Shaw’s “Today:”; photo credit Erin Calabria for Mary Byrne’s “Two Stories”; photo credit Cara Downey for Jory Mickelson’s “Reprise,” Fran Westwood’s “Two Poems,” and for the issue cover.