Issue 4.5 Dedications (Fall 2025) features Gerry Shikatani’s “Journal from Roy’s,” a poem dedicated to his friend Roy Kiyooka, interspersed with newly commissioned images by Henry Tsang; a conversation between Gerry Shikatani and Literary Editor Deanna Fong on poetry and performance; new drawings dedicated to the “non-optimized” by Vida Beyer; a conversation between Deanna Fong and Gail Scott on non-linear writing practices and the event of language; an extended art folio on land and lineage guest-curated by Nasrin Himada and featuring work by Rhayne Vermette, Malena Szlam, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme; and new writing by Francesca Bennett, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, A Jamali Rad, Douglas Kerr, Shiv Kotecha, Suvendrini Lena, Gail Scott, and Hannah Azar Strauss.