Spring comes slowly, teasing longer and warmer days. This issue comes too, taking us from soccer fields to the Bering Strait, from Amsterdam to the Midwest.  It meanders neighborhoods and black holes, always reminding us to hold our loved ones (and ourselves) that much closer.  This issue includes selections from our fall fiction call, “The Embodied Life” as well as poems and essays by new and familiar favorites. We are so excited to share each essay, poem and story with you. 

Writers featured include Diane K. Martin, Sheila Black, Cathy Cochrane, Celia Lawren, Freesia McKee, Claire Cella, a translation by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess, Amanda K Horn, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Garnet Juniper Bennet and so, so many more. ​

Rest In Peace, Martha Silano

Pushcart Prize Nominees
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It is with great sadness all of us at ​Crab Creek Review mourn the passing of the phenomenal Martha Silano.

​Martha Silano served as the poetry editor for Crab Creek Review from 2013–2018. In that time, she brought us outstanding poems, interviews, and book reviews. She set a tone that would establish the caliber of work we publish today and forever shaped  Crab Creek Review.

Martha Silano’s poetry collections include Terminal Surreal (Acre Books, 2025), Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems (Saturnalia Books, 2025), This One We Call Ours (Lynx House Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize, Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019), Reckless Lovely(Saturnalia Books, 2014), and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (Saturnalia Books, 2011). Her awards include North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award. 
We are honored to nominate the below works for the 2024 Pushcart Prize and wish the best of luck to the writers.

Poetry
“Sacrament” by Dawn Dupler
“After” by Amy Smith
"Translation, by Hand, across a River” by Susan Leary
​“Ghazal with Difficult Music” by Emily Rose Cole

Creative Nonfiction
“Merla: The River and the Goddess” by Viktoriia Grivina​
“Swamp Lessons” by Josephine Ensign

Spring Release Party

Join us June 9 at 5:30 PST on zoom to celebrate the launch of our spring issue! 

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From the Archives

Rachel Mehl
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Donna Miscolta
Anastacia-Renée
Christina Lloyd
José Angel Araguz
Olatunde Osinaike
Kait Heacock
Elisávet Makridis
Jax NTP
Erica Charis-Molling
David Greenspan
​Lois Rosen