The Core Review Issue 4 Spring 2026
The Core Review Issue 4 (Spring 2026) is the fourth issue of Fork Apple Press' biannual literary journal.
Contents
Poetry
Happy Deathday!
Hajer Requiq
Nocturne With Lead Paint
River Vetter
Turtle Soup
Megana Dwarakanath
Persephone Visits the Acropolis Museum
Anne Champion
When my rings don’t fit I think of my grandmother’s hands
Susan Muth
ouroboros spell, in red
Alison Lubar
Layover
Sarah Mengel
A False Love
Yucheng Tao
Pastoral
Christopher McCormick
Asleep in the Reeds
Nathan Fako
my cousin Ava
Dylan Rossi
The Birds Do Not Sow, the Lilies Do Not Spin
Jerrod Schwarz
The white/blue fin of the whale
Ari Iscariot
From the curb
Charlie Pecorella
Ghost City
Linlang Zhao
Emergency Rooms
Skye Tarshis
Because Yesterday We Knocked Down
Michele Harmeling
Prose
Boca Chica Launch Fever
Christina Carè
Canopy
Darlene Eliot
The Green Elephant
Thao Vu
Clayman’s Terms
Faria Basher
Safe as Houses
Sam Moe
Painted by an Elephant
Hannah Nathanson
Third Wheel
Kit Brymer
Dorchester
Kevin B
Hell Enough
Jaryd Porter
What Mess
Sam Williams
Sampieri Space Aliens
R. Young
Visual Narrative
Clouded
Robert Christopher Weissenberg
It's All in a Woman's Day
Ila Walman-Randall
Stray (The Moon)
Jackie Roberti
Burst Pipes
fluidics
Beth Kephart
