Crazy times, but I'm still reading for Star 82 Review . Please do send your best and thoughtful poems, art, and stories for possible inclusion in the summer issue here . Below you'll find a sneak peek at the cover. I took this picture on a whale watching trip to the Farallon Islands. We were quite far from any land. Kind of how we might feel right now. But we'll get there! Meanwhile, there's this opportunity to hang out together.

Available now for free reading online here . Support the magazine and get a printed copy here . This issue has wonderful full-color art and short poetry and prose, much of it relating to love and loss, longing and learning, and shown in ways you might not expect. Thanks to all the contributors, subscribers, and readers! CONTRIBUTORS M. Shayne Bell Lily Blackburn Jill Bronfman Alessandra Davy-Falconi Ricardo Elisiário Mary Grimm Mark Havlik Richard Herring Rich Ives Maggie James Angie Kang Casey Killingsworth Melissa Knox Lisa Kokin Thomas M. McDade Benjamin Nash Kevin Ramroop Pablo Saborío Dorsía Smith Silva Robynn Smith Laurie Szujewska Jami Taback Jake Tringali Kim Vanderheiden Suzanne Verrall  Becca Wittman Jessica Woodward