Dear Reader,

On the cover of this issue, one form embraces another. The first–the string–fills the gap in the second, catching the edges of the canvas and making it whole again. So the woven man begins where the painted man ends.

In this issue of the Lit, everywhere you look, you will find the seams of its art. Findthose verses that repeat and repeat in Arthur Delot-Vilain’s “Pantoum for David Berman”–they are always changed and always familiar. Let the voice of Cal Barton’s “Selections from The Complete History of Photography, Vol. 1” tell you the tales behind some famous photographs, filling the spaces where there is no image. Catch traces of the truth in Ava Dadvand’s “P.CtYBL Inv. 6302_Report from a Conquest in the West Atlantic.” Imagine what is lost. And in Lizzie Conklin’s “Anna” and “Collyn,” know the string and the canvas, the seams and the art.

Look to the gaps, the boundaries, the thread bringing the whole form together–that is the stuff of art.

Uma Arengo
Editor-in-Chief