Welcome to our Spring 2021 issue and to the sixth year of Whale Road Review!
We’re in awe of the creative pieces in this issue. They seem to call and respond to each other, especially on the subjects of parents, lovers, and God. Issue 22 features poetry and short prose by Nadia Arioli, Heather Bourbeau, Caroliena Cabada, Kai Coggin, Barbara Crooker, Nicelle Davis, Sheila Dong, Auden Eagerton, Luciana Francis, Katie Karnehm-Esh, Sally Rosen Kindred, Anna Leahy, Courtney LeBlanc, Marjorie Maddox, Fatima Malik, Dayna Patterson, Michele Sharpe, Gail Thomas, Rodd Whelpley, Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Chila Woychik, Sarah Yang, and Wei Zheng.
In the pedagogy papers, Alison Lowenstein offers timely tips for running a virtual drop-in writing workshop, John Gerard Fagan uses letter writing to teach balance in creative nonfiction, and E. K. Taylor borrows the format of speed dating to focus and improve peer critique.
This issue’s reviews take us inside new poetry collections by Grace Carras, Jennifer L. Knox, and Frank Watson and into a new anthology from The Sheddies, a group of poets in Belfast, Maine. Thanks also to Cheryl Caesar, Nate Logan, Thomas R. Moore, and Jim O’Loughlin for their thoughtful work.
As a grand finale, this issue also features a fantastic interview with Caroline Earleywine, author of Lesbian Fashion Struggles, conducted by Risa Denenberg, co-founder Headmistress Press.
If you enjoy this issue and have the means, please tip the authors whose pages have a “Tip the Author” link under the bio. Thank you for reading! We hope you and yours are well and that better days are ahead.
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief