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Cover of Subtropics 39. The image shows a close-up photograph of palm trees and bushes in a swamp-like area.
Issue 39: Summer/Fall 2026

Fiction

  • Roy Kesey – Three Calls
  • Daniel Galef – Cassini Cuts Up
  • Carol Gilligan – On Not Being Invited
  • Nathaniel Lachenmeyer – Yesterday I Made the Board
  • Sindya Bhanoo – The Visitors
  • Bennett Sims – We
  • Wynne Hungerford – Let Me Explain

Poetry

  • Jacqueline Osherow – A Kroyn Far Lita
  • Sarah Edwards – Creation Story
  • Michael O’Ryan – Meditation at a Utah Motel, August
  • Christopher Warner – Apprentice to Water
  • Hua Qing (Translated by Liang Yujing) – 海螺 (Conch), 双龙洞 (Double-Dragon Cave)
  • Sunil Iyengar – Aubade
  • Katherine E. Young – Porcelain
  • Max Schleicher – Times Cinema
  • Trevor Moffa – Subway
  • Jordan Hamel – How to Hit Your Step Count on the Hedonic Treadmill
  • Robert Thomas – Sonnets with Blitz and Blue Ridge
  • Emily Schulten – In the Cry Room, The Smell of Rubber and Oranges Drifts from Florida to Everywhere, Lesson in Vocabulary: Unsalvageable

Essays

  • Jill Ciment – The Jewish Nose
  • Debra Spark – I See You

Found Photographs

  • Lovett’s Grocery, Quincy, Florida

Crossword

  • Matthew Stock – Subtropics Cryptic No. 3