Submissions are OPEN, and GUEST POETRY EDITOR Jim Peterson has joined the team for our spring issue. ♥

Jim Peterson has published eight full-length poetry collections, most recently Towheaded Stone Thrower in early 2025, The Horse Who Bears Me Away in 2020, and Speech Minus Applause in 2019. His novel, Paper Crown, was published in 2005, and his collection of short stories, The Sadness of Whirlwinds, was published in November 2021. He has won The Benjamin Saltman Award for poetry from Red Hen Press, a poetry fellowship from the Virginia Arts Commission, and an Academy of American Poets award. Several hundred of his poems and stories have been published in more than 80 journals and anthologies.  His plays have been produced in regional and college theaters. He retired as Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph College in 2013 and has also taught for many years in the University of Nebraska-Omaha Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. He continues to live and write in the beautiful and mysterious foothills of Virginia.