Introductions Reading Loop

Each spring we use this reading loop to bring to your attention writers and artists whose work you may be encountering for the first time.

In this issue, Blackbird ’s last in this format, we have chosen to recognize the former and current graduate student editors, poets all, whose intelligence and service enabled us to survive (and even thrive) through the pandemic and its aftermath. We owe each of them our profound gratitude as we recognize their critical communal and individual roles in the collaboration that has created each issue of our journal.

They are also writers to watch, and we expect that you will be glad to discover them now—and to hear of them again later in their careers, as you no doubt will.