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Cover art by Kimberly Baum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Volume LIII<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read samples from the issue, click on the linked names<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art:<\/strong>  Sophia Aimone, Kimberly Baum (cover art), Koedi Birmingham, Tess Cahill, Jessica Hitzman, Gretchen Litzlbeck, Dalton Mauzay, Cira Mesubed, Corrina Stadler, Alyson Yates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry:<\/strong> Emily Andrews, Gabriel Boehmer, Christen Careaga, Tausha Cummins, Rebecca DeLore, Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger, Kristi Helgeson, Alexa Jamison, Adriana Juarez, Megan Phillips, Gregory Rawlins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiction:<\/strong> Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger, Jensen Heike, Levi Johnson, Jeremy Pegg, Vannotes <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonfiction:<\/strong> Kristi Helgeson, Cheyenne Maszk, Jeremy Pegg, Heidi Schulz <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff: <\/strong>Christopher Densmore (editor), Mary K. Urquhart (managing editor), Jessica Hitzman (art editor), Tausha Cummins, Delilah Deckert, Rebecca DeLore, Amy Faust, Gracie Gurr, Patsy Lally, Robert Massie, Bekah Ontiveros, Megan Phillips, Destiny Valero, Nick Neely (faculty advisor), Michael Sell (art faculty advisor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all, dear reader, thank you for your generosity in receiving this issue of Oregon East<\/em> with some of your precious time and attention. I think I speak for all the writers and artists included in this collection when I say we hope it offers some consolation, challenge, or clarity to some of your habitual grooves of thought, feeling, and behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never written an editor\u2019s note before, and I feel a bit presumptuous offering pithy prefixes. After all, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll find what you need in these pages, and this collection is as much a product of a collective effort (shepherded with particular care and expertise by Nick Neely and notably kept within the guardrails of reasonable standards so often by Mary Urquhart\u2019s fastidious work ethic and upbeat initiative) as it is any sort of product of my vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, if I ought to speculate on a couple of throughlines that emerge, I do note in these pages a persistent querying of what it means to be in healthy relationship with more-than-human others. Poets like Rebecca DeLore, Christen Pagett, and Greg Rawlings all find themselves in intimate relationship with the wild and domestic ecologies of the Pacific Northwest, while Vannotes, Amelia Ettinger, and Heidi Schulz all queer the boundaries of relating to science and magic in supernatural and speculative fictions. A variety of the pieces also plumb the griefs and anxieties of familial wounds. Levi Johnson and Cheyenne Maszk each reckon in their own way with the heartache born from the limitations of parental love, while Gabriel Boehmer, Jensen Heike and Jeremy Pegg all search for meaning in the face of wrenching loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of these groupings, I hope that, perhaps\u2014if anything so teleological\u2014this collection presents possibilities for expanding our notions of family to encompass grief, praise, and love for more than the immediate and nuclear relations of blood. Family must be more than mere genetic inheritance if we are to breathe into being a world of more spacious empathy, relationship, and interdependent thriving. The poets and writers in these pages all, in one way or another, offer imaginative space to cultivate tenderness and intimacy for beings we might call family\u2014be they queer faerie or plant witch, hedgehog or cosmonaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for taking the time to consider their work. I hope there\u2019s some mystery here that stirs your heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Christopher Densmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributor Notes<\/strong> (bios forthcoming)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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