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Winter 2026

Winter. Vol. 48 No.2

Poetry

Contest Winner

Suddenness Lullaby

By Medrie Purdham
This poem won the second 2026 Mini Contest, a warmup round for the 2-Day Contest! / /

Safranal

By Ata Zargarof
You stand by the stove, stirring a pot of bubbling rice— sticky, gelatinous—your arthritic fingers stained gold by pinched saffron. Your hair is the same rusty bob, your brown eyes ringed with...

Moving Ruins

By Meryem Yildiz
after Zoë Keating i am revisiting a common kestrel eating a bat on the ledge of someone’s bedroom window. it’s 2010 again and the chat logs are beaming, teeming with conversion of...

Reviews

Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney

Reviewed by Chris Johnson

i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos

Reviewed by hannah godfrey

Bonememory by Anna Veprinska

Reviewed by Liam Monaghan

The Loom by Andy Weaver

Reviewed by Olive Andrews

News

Mini Contest Alert!

By Contemporary Verse 2
✨Dust off your dictionaries! ✨ This Sunday is the second 2026 Mini Contest! We've got three more nefarious words from...

Free Poetry Zine-Making Workshop for Teens!

By Contemporary Verse 2
We're so happy to announce that our postponed fall zine-making workshop has been rescheduled to Sunday, February 22nd from 12...

Registration for the 2026 2-Day Poem Contest is Now Open!

By Contemporary Verse 2
Registration for the 2026 CV2 2-Day Poem Contest is now open! This fast-paced yearly contest challenges you to write a...