Issue 120’s cover features an Agnus Dei painting by Ed Fraga, whose narrative cycles echo biblical stories. Also inside: Jessica Jacobs and Phil Metres talk Jewish and Arab American poetry. Daniel Kraft on singer-songwriter John Moreland’s hard-earned gospel. Painter Margaret Morrison on finding her peace with the Church of LDS. Thomas Lynch on Freud and grieving an adult child. Susan Hoffman Fishman on art and climate change. A studio interview with Tom Gick, whose paintings are haunted by the specter of his grandmother. Fiction by Dimitris Lyacos on refugee encampments and by Tony Woodlief on gray urban dystopia with one gleam of hope. Lucienne Bestall on the sacred and the erotic. Jeffrey Utzinger on church basement potlucks. Skyler Di Mauro on the search for vocation. Lisa Russ Spaar on new collections by American national treasure Diane Glancy and Polish national treasure Julia Fiedorczuk. Plus poems by Eric Pankey, Sister Ozanne Schumann, and more.

On the cover: Ed Fraga. Lamb Study #2 (from the Agnus Dei series), 2011. Pencil, oil, and gold leaf on paper. 30 x 23 inches. Photo: Tim Thayer.