Table of Contents
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Stephen Kuusisto
Staff, Acknowledgements, Gratitude
Stephen Ackerman
Enchanted Ladder
Susan Aizenberg
Elegy for Blackburn
Marcia Aldrich
Object of Spatial Manipulation
Grace Bauer
Mayday
Stephen Benz
Variations on a Theme of Paul Tillich
Tal Birdsey
Fragments
Sheila Black
Afterlife
The Place of Parting and Returning
Dmitry Blizniuk
The Milky Way
The Anteater of War
The Words We Have Said
Each of Us Walks over to the Window
The Sound of Rain Outside
Peter Brav
Nickels (You Remembered When)
68th and 1st
William Camponovo
After Yayu
Abby Caplin
Hunger
Peter Cooley
Little Saint Minutes
William Doreski
Too Literate
Sean Thomas Dougherty
What is Left to Praise?
On the F Train Toward Coney Island
Along the Liffey
Ziggy Edwards
Teenage Experiment
Benjamin Evans
Ekphrastic Triptych
Charlene Fix
The Chaotic Class
Drunk Driving
Michael J. Galko
Something that happened
I don’t pretend to understand the mind
Benjamin Goluboff
Jean Charles Cazin, French (1841-1901) “Theocritus,” Oil on Canvas
Kevin Grauke
Effective Immediately
Charles Grosel
In the Spirit of Akhmatova
Jeffrey Gustavson
Crinks in the Furrows
Michael Hettich
The Bees
The Hungry Ghosts
Don Hogle
Monkey in a Red Fez
Ken Holland
Prestidigitation
Richard Jordan
Beyond the Quarry
Good and Loud
Jeremy Teddy Karn
our girl, shelia
Online Ghosts
Henry Kneiszel
Please Promise You Are Not a Robot
Richard Levine
Mixed Mercies
Romance Languages
George Looney
Of Crowded Inns and Sacred Mangers
Raymond Luczak
The great pine tree flagged majesty
Al Maginnes
How We Are
Sean J. Mahoney
State of...
Peter Mladinic
A Dog Got Lost or Dropped Off
Daniel Edward Moore
Glacier of Flames
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Una’s Story
Christine Potter
A Visit
Abby Rosenthal
Somebody's Future
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Hear No Evil
In the Courtroom
Rikki Santer
Poeming Through
Libretto Gymnastics
Caleb Scott
When the Loon
This Too is a Song
Leona Sevick
Half-cocked
Joanna Sit
Letter
Jody Stewart
Closer
What Now
Joshua Michael Stewart
Sunday Morning in October of 2025, Looking Out My Window I Wonder If It Was Worth Getting Out Of Bed
Samn Stockwell
Little dog
SM Stubbs
Fall
Kashawn Taylor
Unc Behavior
Alison Townsend
For the Daughter I Do Not Have
John J. Trause
Johnny and the Golden Fleece
William Welch
Shouldering All That
J.B. Williams
Mnemosyne and the Circadian Rhythm Section
Martin Willitts Jr.
Harvesting
Theodora Ziolkowski
Postpartum
The Campus Novel
Gary Whittington
The Book of Pilgrimage, a translated excerpt from Rilke's The Book of Hours
NINE MILE MAGAZINE
Publisher: Nine Mile Art Corp.
Editors: Stephen Kuusisto, Andrea Scarpino, and David Weiss
Founding Editor: Bob Herz
Managing Editor: Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri
Cover Art by Sophie Vaillant Donatelli.
Sophie lives and paints in Sloatsburg, New York and Collobrières, France.
You can find her work at SophiethePainter.com.
She is having a one woman show at iO Arts Center, Palisades, NY. It runs from June 26-July 19, 2026.
Publication of this magazine has been made possible by support from Propel and the Poetry Foundation.
The publishers also acknowledge past support from the following entities: the New York State Council on the Arts, the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the County of Onondaga and
CNY Arts through the Tier Three Project Support Grant Program.
This publication would not have been possible without the generous support of these groups.
We are very grateful to them all.
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