Corridor Vol. 30—August 2025 is a milestone celebration of everything this zine stands for: voices unguarded, art unfiltered, and a shared sense of wonder. It occurred to me this month’s theme—belonging where I don’t belong—echoes through every poem, prose, and work of art. From a poetic fox unzipping into a constellation, to the quiet heartbreak of Visiting Day, to a girl who builds forts of survival and imagination, each piece in this volume vibrates with raw honesty and surprising tenderness. The artists and poets bring us humor, grief, desert hallucinations, and garden ghosts. What binds them is their courage to see—and say—what others might overlook. Volume 30 is more than an anniversary issue. It’s a gathering place, a starlit road, a fort built of stories you’ll want to live in. Keep your eyes open for copies. They will begin to go out in the first two weeks of August.
Photo Credit: Jessica Pfundt
Vol. 30 Contributors
All poems and art used with permission and submitted by the creator.
HAIKU FRAME FEATURE
Victor Ortiz
CIDER VINEGAR
Harry Needham
THROUGH THE WINDOW
Nancy Canyon
VISITING DAY
Elizabeth Jane Pryce
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Captain Snowdon
FOX UNIVERSE
Duncan Shields
WHEN SUMMER ARRIVES
Betty Scott
LINES ON MY FACE
Lúthien Tamminga
SUBURBAN SUMMER
Nancy Kay Peterson
A GLOW ON THE DARK
Lynn Geri
FORT BUILDER
Shannon Laws
BIOS BIOS BIOS
Victor Ortiz, a Bellingham poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, writes free-style English-language haiku, preserving elements from Japanese haiku aesthetic and technique.
Harry Needham is an Englishman living in Bellingham with his amazing wife. He has been in the U.S for 8 years. More stuff about barely remembered things at http://www.poetryconcrete.org
Nancy Canyon’s books: “Saltwater” (poetry), “Celia’s Heaven” (novel), and “Struck: A Season on a Fire Lookout” (memoir). Nancy teaches writing and painting in her historic Fairhaven art studio. nancycanyon.com
Elizabeth Jane Pryce is a poet, “Wild Child”, (2010). Author of an early childhood memoir, “Chosen”, (2022). She currently writes a blog: bluebottleswritingstudio.com
Captain Snowdon is a poet, sex educator, and death doula living in so-called Canada on the territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees peoples. They can be found at captainsnowdon.ca
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.
A garden-variety poet, Betty Scott plants images, sounds, and rhythms she hopes will bloom in readers’ minds after she dips her hands into muddy soil, where, for her, laughter resides.
Lúthien Tamminga shares, “Writing is how I keep in touch with my soul and understand my own emotions. I hope my poems make you feel seen and safe, like
writing them does for me.” Instagram @__luthienne__
Nancy Kay Peterson has published some 200+ poems and two chapbooks and is
still working hard to learn how to write better poetry
Jessica Pfundt is a local photographer who enjoys capturing PNW landscapes
and the people within them. Her poetry is inspired by our human connection to
our environments.
Lynn Geri lives in Bellingham… dreaming of flowers that taught her about beauty and how a garden’s four-corner structure taught her a way to seek understanding.
Shannon Laws is the publisher of Corridor. Her fifth poetry book, “Tongue in Ink,” is available at Village Books in June 2025. shannonplawswriter.com
ARTISTS
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.
Kathleen A. McKeever has published two books of poetry, available at Village Books or Bellingham Washington Public Library, “Lightbound” and “Body/Today.”
Shoshana D. Kerewsky is the author of “Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino: A Memoir” and “50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago.”
shannon p. laws 