Section 01
Bold
Opening works of arrival, declaration, figure, memory, and first passage.
Current Issue / 2026
Threshold
Journal of Literature & Art
This digital issue treats the printed journal as an exhibition catalogue: a threshold between private drafts and public rooms, between image and text, between the held page and the illuminated screen.
Exhibition model
Rooms of the Issue
Section 02
Transit
Work in motion: travel, thresholds, maps, messages, recollection, and crossing.
Section 03
Verdant
Green matter, growth, humor, field notes, and questions of survival.
Section 04
Cleave
A room of separation and attachment, evidence and tenderness, wound and artifact.
Section 05
Unfold
Works that open outward into family, weather, stillness, design, and public care.
Section 06
Hallow
The final room gathers dream, body, ceremony, remembrance, and looking upward.
Selected works
A First Passage
14
In Medias Res
Short fiction
Fiction / Transit
In Medias Res
Mabel parks behind a long line of vehicles on the road’s shoulder, grabs her camera from the passenger seat, and starts walking towards Peter’s house. Only a mile out of town, yet rural, she can hear chickens...
Visual Art / Bold
Jim
A clay sculpture placed early in the issue as a quiet figure of arrival.
26
Brothers
Poem
Poetry / Cleave
Brothers
Dan stopped sleepwalking when he enlisted in the Army. He half joked that God tied his legs to the bed at night so he wouldn't get himself killed.
Design / Bold
Brilliant
A graphic design work built around the language and visual system of brilliance.
Visual Art / Hallow
View from the Empire State Building
A graphite view from the Empire State Building, architectural and atmospheric.