Issue 2. August 2026. Jessica Cohn Sun shines as though a distant, cooling ember.Slight wind blows to catch the treetops.Glints the window, where I stand as witnessas the lone hummingbird arrives in e...

“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.”

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A Quarterly Journal of Poetry and Art

Bookshop Santa Cruz is a large independent bookstore located in the heart of downtown Santa Cruz, California since 1966. Bookshop fills over 20,000 square feet with a wide selection of new, used, and sale books along with extensive magazine, cards, gifts, and toys sections. Bookshop nurtures the strong intellectual community dedicated to the written word environment in Santa Cruz with a comprehensive author event series featuring appearances by both national and local authors in our beautiful event space, the skylight room, and at offsite venues.

"Face Value," a new Letter to America poem by Jessica Cohn about how the poet collects "cold, dead presidents in a red woven basket..."

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In "Gratitude Journal: Poems," Jessica Cohn expresses gratitude for the unusual and unexpected, but always with something larger in mind.