Can you believe it is November already? The new year is just around the corner. This edition is full of beautiful images that I hope will inspire you during our dark winters. Poets and artists are not new to introspection and observation of the simple and complex. What I particularly appreciate about this month’s collection is how the poems remind us that even the smallest things—a drop of rain, a baby goat, a seed, a remembered embrace—can hold enormous meaning.
Corridor Vol. 45’s COVER BY: Shannon Laws, “A Hotel Corridor Turns Into A Ruckus When Exquisite Reality Checks In”
Corridor is accepting poems and art for January and February 2027. We need lots of art. Artists, where’s the art? Please consider sending over some print-ready art. We LOVE your art.
FAQ here: https://shannonplawswriter.com/2025/04/26/corridor-zine-submit-your-art-and-poetry-today/
Some photos of Corridors in the wild
BIOS BIOS BIOS
Victor Ortiz, a Bellingham poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, writes free-style English-language haiku, preserving elements from Japanese haiku aesthetics and techniques.
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s poetry chapbook, Pause Mid-Flight, was released in 2010, and her poetry and essays were collected in Dancing Between Bamboo Poles and
published in 2019.
Duncan Shields is an animator, writer, podcaster, and performer currently living in Vancouver, BC, with his wife and daughter. He enjoys the rain and burritos, and he’s
happy to be here.
Linda Conroy, a Bellingham poet, likes to write about the complexities of human nature and our connection to the natural world. Her third poetry collection, Many Windows, is now available at Village Books.
Tyson Higel lives in Bellingham, where he works as a nurse, tinkers with words, and is learning, always, that there’s joy in simplicity. Reach out / read more at tysonhigel.com
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she tears words out of magazines and stares at them until they turn into poems. Find out more at
https://chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com or on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Harvey Schwartz hitchhiked west in 1971 for a summer vacation and never returned. His life since has been sprinkled with magic that he tries to put in words.
Naomi Stenberg (she/they) lives in Seattle. A poem of Naomi’s was nominated for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards. Naomi’s new chapbook, The Measure of Breath, is coming out this Fall.
Mary Elizabeth Gillilan says, “The characters I write bear my DNA — and poetry — in my dissolving bones. I live in the Pacific Northwest with my little tailwagger,
Betty Bananas. ” https://maryegillilan.wordpress.com/
Kathleen A. McKeever has published two books of poetry, available at Village Books or the Bellingham, Washington, Public Library, “Lightbound” and “Body/Today.”
Shannon Laws, a 2026 Village Books Literary Citizen, is the publisher of Corridor. Her fifth poetry book, “Tongue in Ink,” is available at Village Books. shannonplawswriter.com
ARTISTS
Peer Smits lives in the Netherlands. 7 books. Writing also prose, composer, photographer. Publications in several magazines. Painter.
Michelle Ballou is a poet and artist living in Bellingham, Washington. She likes to play with ink, paper, and words. The American Robin is her spark bird.
