The August edition of Corridor vol 42 is coming out this week. We are slowly making our way toward Volume 50!
As a small thank-you to our wonderful, mysterious readers, we’re passing out a collection of FREE stickers. We found some lovely flower stickers along with tiny replicas of classic and modern book covers. Fun!
What a joyful project Corridor has become. Our distributors have been sharing stories about their interactions with poets and readers throughout our community. Connections are happening as copies are left in newspaper racks and community areas of coffee shops and restaurants.
One distributor shared that the staff at Avenue Bread on James Street actually clap when new zines arrive each month. Many locations, including the FireHouse in Fairhaven, go through their copies so quickly that they are restocked twice a month. Distributors also place Corridor in Little Free Libraries, where the copies disappear every month. People are picking up these little zines, reading them, and sharing their appreciation.
As we enter the last official month of summer, I’ve been thinking about the changes that come with the seasons and the changes we experience in our own lives. Corridor continues to pull at my heart, and I feel grateful for this growing collection and the community surrounding it. In this issue, you’ll find recurring themes of nature’s cycles of change, loss, and renewal, and the ways they reflect our own human experience.
Thank you for reading, sharing, and helping Corridor find its way into so many hands.
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Victor Ortiz, a Bellingham poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, writes free-style English-language haiku, preserving elements from Japanese haiku aesthetic and technique.
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
Linda Conroy, a Bellingham poet, and author of two poetry collections, likes to write about the complexities of human nature and our connection to the natural world.
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.
Elizabeth Jane Pryce is a poet, “Wild Child”, (2010). Author of an early childhood memoir, “Chosen”, (2022). She currently writes a blog: bluebottleswritingstudio.com
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.
Shoshana D. Kerewsky is the author of “Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino: A Memoir,” “50 Days in May: Reflections Along the Camino de Santiago,” and the novel “The Codex of Christian Surname.”
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 is the publisher of Corridor. Her fifth poetry book “Tongue in Ink” is available at Village Books. shannonplawswriter.com
ARTISTS
Peer Smits (The Netherlands).3 books. Writing also prose, composer, photographer. Publications in several magazines. Painter.
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.
Crash Solo is a librarian who writes poetry, plays, and fiction, and also creates and shares collages. He sometimes runs long distances. He lives with his family in Bellingham.
shannon p. laws 