Introduction to Issue THREE

A Note from the Editors

We have found the winter months to be a time of incubation. As the cold forms new hard layers, underneath a network of nurturing grows. Like a seed, Issue Three is deeply rooted while bravely breaking soil.

All of the places our contributors have conjured—fields, houses, rivers, ruins—are layered deep as well, the past and present thick enough to sink with every step.

As you settle into this issue, we hope you will let the desire for stillness and movement guide you. We recommend lingering in the empty spaces where sound echoes the loudest.

— Cara Downey and Erin Calabria

Issue Three image credits: all photographs featured in the issue’s table of contents were taken or provided by our contributors with the following exceptions: photo credit Lyle Poulin for Melissa Reeser Poulin’s “Landscape with Mother of Young Children”; photo credit Erin Calabria for the issue cover.