Fjords Reviews

 
  • Fjords Reviews Spring - Summer 2025
 

POETRY
Sadness is the Wellspring
by Shaomei Yu 

July 11, 2025

The sky is getting darker
The air is also cooler
I’d say –
Sadness is the wellspring... read more >

 
 

POETRY
The Absolute Beauty of Ordinary Things
by Cami Rumble

July 11, 2025

They shriek with ugliness—

Dirty rolling asphalt parking lots,
weeds growing tall along the road,
the man pulling a metal cart heaped with trash bags,... read more >

 

FICTION
Winter Bloom
by Walter Martin

July 11, 2025

I was only a month from my 70th birthday when my wife came up behind me while I brushed my teeth and she stroked my belly. "What have we here?" I had been trying to ignore it for weeks and had even been sucking it up when Ava was near. .. read more >

 

FICTION
Saoirse
by Meg Macroom

July 11, 2025

"Mum?” I called gently as I entered my aunt’s living room in West Cork.

“Mum, are you awake?”        

Peat embers hissed in the hearth, releasing loamy, whiskey scents... read more >

 
 
Past Issues
LATEST PRINT ISSUE
 
 
 
 
 
  • Fjords - Volume 1, Issue 1 Volume I, Issue 1

    Art by Clay Witt, poetry by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, fiction by Stephen Wade.

  • Fjords - Volume 1, Issue 2 Volume I, Issue 2

    Fiction by Peter Liu, poetry by Jonathan Greenhause, memoir by Verity Barudin.

  • Fjords - Volume 1, Issue 3 Volume I, Issue 3

    Poetry by Vanessa Blakeslee, paintings by Vadis Turner, and a review of Boy.

  • Fjords - Volume 1, Issue 4 Volume I, Issue 4

    Art by Kehinde Wiley, fiction by Philip Kobylarz, and poetry by Nancy Carol Moody.

  • Fjords - Volume 2, Issue 1 Volume II, Issue 1

    Billy Collins Interviewed, fiction by Erik Martiny, prose by Ori Fienberg.

  • Fjords - Volume 2, Issue 2 Volume II, Issue 3

    Jacob M. Appel Interviewed, art by Yumi Sakugawa, essay by Sean Carswell

  • Fjords - Volume 2, Issue 3 Volume III, Issue 1

    Poetry by Sarah Palin Erased, interview by Phillip Gross, short story by Erik Martiny, essay by Jeffrey Skinner, art by Paul Kolker

  • Fjords - Volume 2, Issue 4 Volume III, Issue 2

    Poetry by Annie Christain, interview by Aurelie Sheehan, fiction by Julia Fine, essay by Kirk Nesset, art curated by Owen Duffy

  • Fjords - Volume 2, Issue 4 Volume III, Issue 3

    Poetry by Nandini Dhar, interview by Sean Street, fiction by Patrick Wilson, essay by Salpi Vartivarian, art by Nance Van Winkle

  • Fjords - Volume 3, Issue 4 Volume III, Issue 4

    Poetry by Chen Chen, Art by Noah Becker, Interview by Chris Belden, Fiction by Elisa Wolf, Essay by Jay Varner

  • Fjords - Volume 4, Issue 1 Volume IV, Issue 1

    Introduction by Tanya Grae, Poetry by Danez Smith, Art by Steve Miller, Interview by Junot Diaz, Fiction by Jamie B. De Monte, Essay and Art by Ernesto Caivano

  • Fjords - Volume 4, Issue 2 Volume IV, Issue 2

    Cover: Daryl Westly, Illustration: Kelly McQuain, Poetry: Dorothea Lasky, Art: Gregory De La Haba, Nonfiction: Jason K. Friedman

  • Fjords - Volume 4, Issue 3 Volume IV, Issue 3

    Cover: Kelly McQuain, Interview: Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee, Art: Nate Lewis, Paul Vogeler, Stu Watson, Photography: Therese Ritchie

  • Fjords - Volume 4, Issue 4 Volume IV, Issue 4

    Cover: Kelly McQuain, Interview: Philip Metres by Kelly McQuain, Art: Billy the Artist, Stephanie Hirsch, Charles Birnbaum, Fiction: Phineas Lambert and more

Fjords - Volume 5, Issue 1

Volume V, Issue 1

COVER:
Rebecca Gayle Howell by Kelly McQuain
BACK COVER:
The Pelican Has Landed by Sean Yseult
INTERVIEW::
Rebecca Gayle Howell by Kelly McQuain
INTRODUCING:
Yasha de la Luna