Open Space: Exclusive online content from the North American Review

Open Space

Exclusive online content from the North American Review

Open Space

Old Map
Review | a. adenike phillips
A Review of Glitter Road by January Gill O’Neil

 

mirror image of trees and birds with a blue background
Poetry | Amy de Rouvray
Ultrasound with Bird

 

mirrored alleyways
Poetry | Brooke Harries
Father in Chiaroscuro

 

Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate logo
News | NAR Editors
2025 Commencement Event

 

Egbert van der Poel, Fire in a Village (1650) Painting of burning building and mob.
Fiction | Molly Moran
Pungoteague, 1652

 

spiderweb sketch
Poetry | Alex Mouw
Second Trimester

 

wheat
Poetry | Paul Mariani
Fugue for the Harvest Moon Shining Over Montague

 

empty parking lot
Nonfiction | Jennifer Miller
Self Portrait in the Prison Parking Lot with Planned Parenthood

 

empty classroom, chairs on desks
Fiction | Alice Kinerk
Parents Just Don’t Understand

 

red woodcut of tree rings on cream background
Review | Robert Manaster
Sustaining the Sense of Beginning, A Review of Devon Walker-Figueroa's Philomath

 

white paper dolls on a red background
Interview | Greer Engle-Roe
“Tracing the shape of real bodies”: An Interview with Frances Cannon

 

framed tether
Craft | Lisa Fay Coutley
What the Birds Showed My Wounded Child, My Adaptive Adolescent, & My Wise Adult

 

gray yarn
Nonfiction | Lisa Fay Coutley
Why to Crochet

 

red and white painted stripes
Nonfiction | Jonathan Griffith
Pledge of Allegiance

 

empty room with three windows
Nonfiction | Jim Reese
American Horror Story

 

Black and white ocean
Poetry | FM Stringer
When you say you want your ashes scattered

 

white circle black background
Poetry | Kristie Frederick Daugherty
Marital Bones

 

dark house with night sky
Nonfiction | Raphael Dagold
& a butterfly bush

 

Woman's face with swirl of color over her eyes and head
Review | Shannon K. Winston
A Review of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s Exploding Head

 

stained glass with blue leading
News | NAR Editors
Winners of the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

 

Woman riding yellow horse
Essay | Shann Ray
Tilling the Fields of the Unspeakable

 

orange smoke on blue background by Laura Vink for Unsplash
News | NAR Editors
Winners of the 2025 James Hearst Poetry Prize

 

Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate logo
News | NAR Editors
Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate | Spring 2025 Workshop

 

Abstract Blue Painting
Poetry | Translated to English by Wendy Call
The Binnizá