Issue 4.2: IT IS WHAT IT IS (Spring 2024) Features new poetry and prose by Dani Carter, Ashton Diduck, River Halen, Henry Heavyshield, Irum, Woojae Kim, Alice Notley, Gerry Shikitani, and Yoon Sook Cha; a conversation between Fred Wah and Jastej Luddu on finding an unpublished poem within the archive; an artist project by Benjamin de Boer, SK Maston, and Ami Xherro; an interview between Alice Notley and Deanna Fong; and an image folio of artworks by Derya Akay, Jonathan Alfaro, Marvin Luvualu António, Tiziana La Melia, Elizabeth McIntosh, and Tania Willard.

This issue also features the first two pieces commissioned by Associate Editor Susan Blight for our new Indigenous Places and Names series: a conversation with Stó:lō scholar and musicologist Dylan Robinson on the politics of naming within the wider context of Indigenous resurgence, and a futurist vision of land and relation by Diné artist Nicole Neidhardt.