7.13.2026

FEATURED POET: LEEANN PICKRELL

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), Petits Matins, 1980, 21½ × 15 inches, oil on canvas. The painting is reproduced in Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985 (David Zwirner Books, 2024, p. 39).

LEEANN PICKRELL is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Her work as an editor inspired her chapbook Punctuated (Bottlecap Press, 2024). She is also the author of a longer collection, Gathering the Pieces of Days (Unsolicited Press, 2025). Tsunami, her account of surviving the 2004 tidal wave that killed some 230,000 people across fourteen countries, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press on August 11 and can be preordered here. She writes the LeeAnn Pickrell ~ Poetry & Prose newsletter on Substack.