The Prairie Schooner offices will be holding an OPEN HOUSE on Wednesday, April 29, 12:30-2pm to celebrate the release of their spring 2026 issue: The Loneliness Issue.
The issue includes:
--excerpts from UNBOUND: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40; co-edited by our own Chibueze Darlington Anuonye;
--new fiction by English alum Olufunke Ogundimu;
--a reflection on Edward Hopper's "Room in New York" by Kurt Andersen (who will be on campus in the fall);
--new poetry by Aimee Nezhukumatathil;
--the winning essay from our Creative Nonfiction Contest, by Jamila Osman;
--the story behind a notorious act of university censorship of Prairie Schooner in the 1960s;
--and more! 247 pages of poetry, stories, and essays...
There will be coffee and cookies; please stop in and say hello!