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Blue Heron Review Issue 21 / Spring 2026 Is Now Available to Read Online!

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Welcome to the latest issue of Blue Heron Review (BHR Issue 21 / Spring 2026 / “Wholeness”). To read and enjoy our full issue of poetry and artwork, please visit the BHR 21 page of our website.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Poets:
David Anson Lee * Emily Tee * Ellen Rowland * Jill McGrath * Barbara Krasner * Jenna Wysong Filbrun * Mary L Serantoni * Jean Janicke * Kate Young Wilder * Michael Hettich * Lynne Burnett * Debora Tremont * Vivian Faith Prescott * Jeannie E Roberts * Francis Opila * Catherine McGuire * Daniel Thomas * Donna J Gelagotis Lee * Faith-Anne Bell * John Willson * Carolyn Chilton Casas * Janet Ruth * Patricia Nelson * Susan Shaw Sailer * Paula Schulz * Sophia Joan * Abha Das Sarma * Christine Daleiden

Artists:
j lewis (cover artist) * Kurt Huebner * Karen VandenBos * Paula Lietz

EDITOR’S NOTE:

What provides us with a sense of wholeness in life? I hope that you find some inspiration for your own path when reading these thoughtful, heartfelt, and powerful poems. A wonderful variety of experiences are shared in this collection. For some, wholeness is about the bonds of love and family. For others, it is the mystical presence of nature that provides a sense of completion. For others still, it involves the connections made while traveling or the deep fulfillment of an artistic pursuit. May you find yourself in these stanzas. May you seek wholeness. This issue is definitely meant to be savored. Read a few, reflect, then return for another sip.

Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor
Blue Heron Review
(*Founded 2013)

2025 Best of the Net Nominations for Blue Heron Review

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It is an honor to curate Blue Heron Review and bring you a beautiful selection of thought-provoking, meditative poetry. I am proud of all of our talented contributors. I wish I could have nominated more than just 6 authors for the Best of the Net Anthology. It is always very difficult to choose. Please join me in celebrating the work of these fine writers. The following poets nominated appear in either BHR Issue 17 / Fall 2023 or BHR Issue 18 / Spring 2024.

Visit the BHR 17 and BHR 18 pages of this site to read all of these beautiful poems. Simply scroll down to find the work of each author within the issue.

Nominations from BHR 17 Fall 2023

Jill McGrath / “Meditation”
Susan Martell Huebner / “Tracking Progress at the YMCA”

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Nominations from BHR 18 Spring 2024

Karen Elizabeth Sharpe / “The Sixth Type: A Prescription”
Cynthia Knorr / “Portent from the Space Between the Stars”
Dianna MacKinnon Henning / “In the Collage of My Mind I’m a Simple Design”
Tova Kranz / “Fermentation”

BHR Issue 17 Fall 2023 / Heart Source & Haven NOW ONLINE!

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Welcome to the fall issue of Blue Heron Review (BHR 17 / “Heart Source & Haven”). To read and enjoy our full issue of poetry and artwork, please visit the BHR 17 page of our website.

CONTRIBUTORS

Poets:
Cynthia Pratt * Catherine Gonick * Cathy Thwing * Sue Ann Gleason * Terry Jude Miller * Jim Landwehr * Jacqueline Kudler * Pat Phillips West * Jill McGrath * Janet Ruth * Sarah Sadie * Sarah Dickenson Snyder * Judith Sornberger * Ellen Austin-Li * Bonnie Demerjian * Susan Martell Huebner * Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca * Strider Marcus Jones * Nancy Jean Larson * Mary Fitzpatrick * John Grey * Paula Schulz * Mary Trafford * Luanne Castle * Thomas A Thrun * Nancy Austin * Anne Kundtz * Joanne Clarkson * Gary Grossman * Stephen Anderson * Emily Tee * Laura Foley * Scott Ferry * Carol Tahir * Kathrine Yets * Karen A VandenBos * Julie A Dickson * Mary Ray Goehring * Gary Thomas * Jackie Langetieg * Diane Vogel Ferri * Margaret DeRitter * Lisa Ashley * Gail Tirone * Martha Jackson Kaplan * Marsha Owens * Sara Sarna * Paulette Laufer

Artists:
Richard Havenga (cover artist) * Donna Hilbert (featured artist) * Janet Ruth * Paula Lietz * Jeannie E Roberts * Mary Ray Goehring

EDITOR’S NOTE:

I hope that this collection of poetry and artwork provides a welcome space of quiet calm, at a time when our world is in need of repair and peace. In small and gentle ways, may these offerings comfort the heart and mind. This issue is meant to be savored, so take your time. Grab a cup of tea or coffee and settle in. Take some time to hit pause during your day. We hope that you will return again and again to sit with these poems and drink them in.

Kind thoughts,

Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor
Blue Heron Review
(*founded in 2013)