In the Summer 2026 issue of New England Review (47.2), readers can experience excerpts from New England Review’s international folio “Brazilian Badlands: Seven Women Writing the Brazilian Northeast,” guest edited by Bruna Dantas Lobato; rewarding prose by Laurence de Looze, Olaniyi Omiwale, L. F. Khouri, and Douglas Silver; and multifaceted poetry by Jennie Malboeuf, Cynthia Cruz, and Matty Layne Glasgow. Cover art by Gustavo Amaral.
The issue opens with a note from Poetry Editor Jennifer Chang reflecting on a graduate seminar about endings and offering a farewell to her role as poetry editor. Chang explores poetic closure, artistic experience, and the persistence of meaningful conversations. Through literature, music, teaching, and editorial work, Chang argues that the most powerful endings resist resolution, continuing to resonate, transform, and inspire. Indeed, the editors note that while Chang “will conclude her duties as poetry editor shortly after this issue is released from the printer, more of her selections will appear in the next issue. In the spirit of her editor’s note above, this ending is to be continued.”
