Chiron Review, Issue 140, Spring 2026

Robert Yarra contributes an interview with John Wisniewski, in which Robert discusses meeting William S. Burroughs on pages 36–38; within this section, on pages 37–38, is a letter from Burroughs to Yarra written on 18 January 1975.

Robert Yarra also contributes his work “Don’t Step Lively, Lads!” in which a paragraph describes Yarra’s impression of Burroughs (pp. 43–44).

Published in St. John, Kansas, by Chiron Review in Spring of 2026.

This copy is signed by Charles Plymell on the two pages where his poems appear, pp. 92–93. This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20260400CREV.0.140

Selected Contents:

• Mark James Andrews: "I Don't Read Poetry" (poetry)
• Dmitry Blizniuk: "Alica" (poetry, translated by Sergey Gerasimov)
• Brenton Booth: "The Last Time I Saw My Father" (prose)
• Joan E. Bauer: "Is It Ever Right to Tell a Lie?" (poetry)
• Michael Carrino: "A Moment at Old Mountain Cafe" (poetry)
• Alan Catlin: "Jamie" (poetry)
• Brian Cronwall: "The Way West" (poetry)
• J. D. Caulley: "The Issue of the Worms" (prose)
• Kenneth DiMaggio:
• "Landscape with Boardwalk, Cone of Cotton Candy, Hot Dogs, and Space Ride" (poetry)
• "Landscape with Pit Bull, Hobo, Boxcar, and Famous Painting" (poetry)
• Lenny DellaRocca:
• "Speak of the Dead" (poetry)
• "Far Fever" (poetry)
• "20th Century Soiree" (poetry)
• Jaya Darriet: "06/09/2025" (poetry)
• David Edelman:
• "Wolverines" (poetry)
• "Foreground, Background" (poetry)
• Robert Yarra:
• photographs
• "Don't Step Lively, Lads!" (prose)
• John Wisniewski and Robert Yarra: "Life, Literature, & Luminaries: An Interview with Robert Yarra, Founder of the Golda Foundation" (interview, including a William S. Burroughs letter)
• John S. Eustis: "OU vs. OSU" (poetry)
• George Freek: "October Night" (poetry)
• George Franklin: "October at Everglades Correctional" (poetry)
• Eric Grow: "Expiration Date" (prose)
• Jasna Gugic: "My Silence" (poetry)
• Dan Grote: "Permission to Be Human" (poetry)
• Justin Hollis: "I leave the bath running..." (prose poetry)
• J. T. Knoll:
• "To Donald Trump" (open letter)
• "Do you ever miss the shift" (poetry)
• "Glad to be alive" (poetry)
• Koss: "Cake" (prose)
• Sarah Mackey Kirby: "There Is No Broken Refrigerator in the Holy Wherever-He-Is" (poetry)
• Donald Levering:
• "You Are a Great White Shark" (poetry)
• "Rainbarrel" (poetry)
• "Passages" (poetry)
• "Provenance" (poetry)
• Michael Lauchlan:
• "I Found a Fossil" (poetry)
• "Listening to Ravel's 'Pavane for a Dead Child'" (poetry)
• Peter Leight: "Essay on Love, in Which We're Agreeing" (poetry)
• Daniel Edward Moore: "When the Mind Seeks Rest" (poetry)
• Michael Mark: "What I Learned from Writing Five Condolence Notes in One Week" (poetry)
• Michelle M. Miller:
• "I filled my grave with memory" (prose poetry)
• "I can feel the weight" (prose poetry)
• Dana Holley Maloney:
• "Fathers" (poetry)
• "Second Son" (poetry)
• Edward Mycue: "Sister Nolaska 6th Grade Teacher 1948: 77 YEARS and me 88 now and TOLD ME" (prose poetry)
• Kevin McLellan: "I" (poetry)
• Roger Netzer:
• "Drinking Song" (poetry)
• "Do I Sleep or Wake: A Survey" (poetry)
• "Asleep or Awake: Survey Two" (poetry)
• normal:
• "a fossil's prayer" (poetry)
• "mother earth" (poetry)
• Ocean: "Addict" (poetry)
• Bruce Ouderkirk: "Ready for Departure" (prose)
• Beth Brown Preston:
• "Once the Night" (poetry)
• "Dark Rhythms" (poetry)
• Robert L. Penick:
• "Lament" (poetry)
• "Forward" (poetry)
• "Signing Off" (poetry)
• Charles Plymell:
• "Look Around You" (poetry)
• "Riding the White Mule" (poetry)
• Ira Wood: photographs
• Marge Piercy:
• "Storm coming?" (poetry)
• "Blizzard, Cape Cod" (poetry)
• "Dry lumps of hope" (poetry)
• "Sometimes I boast" (poetry)
• "Companion gone" (poetry)
• "Every year so far" (poetry)
• "Decluttering a life" (poetry)
• "Getting it all back" (poetry)
• "I'm a different squirrel now" (poetry)
• "I never got to them" (poetry)
• Connie Post:
• "Purge" (poetry)
• "I've Never Been to Your Gravesite" (poetry)
• Ira Rosenstein:
• "be judicious" (poetry)
• "lonely, and not the most musical of birds" (poetry)
• William James Rosser: "Bitter Manhattan" (poetry)
• Dana Stamps, II: "Lady Nicotine" (prose)
• Paul Smith:
• "Shower" (poetry)
• "Universe" (poetry)
• Marc Swan:
• "Any Street" (poetry)
• "Strength in Numbers" (poetry)
• Dudley Stone:
• "Gum" (poetry)
• "Rock City" (poetry)
• "True Story" (poetry)
• B. R. Strahan: "In Shenandoah (from old photographs)" (poetry)
• Wally Swist:
• "What It Is in Our Hearts" (poetry)
• "My Eurydice" (poetry)
• "Atonal Accompaniment" (poetry)
• Susannah Sheffer: "Philanthropy" (poetry)
• Daniel Thompson: "Sappho in New Orleans, 2025" (poetry)
• Kari Wergeland:
• "Fastening" (poetry)
• "Old Globe" (poetry)
• "Mendocino" (poetry)
• Jeff Weddle:
• "Gone Too Soon" (poetry)
• "A Fall from Grace" (poetry)
• "Twilight" (poetry)
• Charles Harper Webb: "His Life Has Flowered Like the Pecan Trees in His Back Yard" (poetry)
• Cary B. Ziter:
• "Maybe" (poetry)
• "Sensed in My Bones" (poetry)
• Mohammad Zaman: "Boltzmann Brain" (poetry)
• Ali Shehzd Zaidi: "Dreams" (poetry
• book reviews
• biographies

Publishing Information:

• Poetry Editors: Wendy Rainey, Grant Hier, Al Ortolani, Richard Vargas, Sarah Daugherty
• Fiction Editors: Sarah Daugherty, Dave Newman
• Cover: Big Al
• Publisher: Michael Hathaway