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Recent poems, stories, and essays featured via our Resilient Pieholes series and our Read Who’s Reading You series

This June, I took a walk with poet and artist Anastacia-Reneé (who has a new book out, Side Notes from the Archivist, reviewed by our Poetry Editor Tanya Young) in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. We paused at the entrance and Anastacia suggested we take off our shoes and stand in the grass for a few …

Welcome to Issue 85! As I sit here, writing this letter to celebrate Issue 85 as the new Editor-in-Chief of Bellingham Review, there are packets of seeds that my mother gave me the last time I visited home. These seeds were saved from her Jersey garden, packed in little handmade envelopes. Among them: bitter melon and eggplant. …

Welcome back, readers, to our brand new website! We’re so glad you’re here. Issue 84.5 is a soft launch of our redesigned platform featuring work from Rena Priest, Troy Osaki, and Keith S. Wilson, among other writers, in addition to stunning cover artwork from Seattle visual artist, Nikita Ares. We hope you enjoy this collection …

The editors of Bellingham Review are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 84, our thirteenth annual online issue. Inside you will find a collection of new hybrid, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from incredibly talented writers. You will also find the 2021 contest winners included. The issue’s cover features Susan Bennerstrom’s stunning painting, A Way …

Letter from the Managing Editor         Far Away Like Cuba   Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder   Introduction: The Metronome of the Cuban Soul       Ramón Hondal Awakening          Four   Amando Fernández      Agronomy Lesson       Interior Testimony      Listen to My …