Our spring issue explores the variety of registers in which the human voice operates: whispering and shouting, singing and keening, wailing, grumbling, and imploring. As Molly McCully Brown writes in her editorial, “We’re made for this, to raise our voices.” The issue includes essays by Mary Margaret Alvarado on shaped note singing in the age of AI; and by Jayme Stayer on how a singer’s voice can claim a permanent place in us, no matter what kind of person they are. Also: Ted Gioia talks with Joshua Stamper about on voice and radical humanness. Eli Rarey takes a pilgrimage to see a surrealist painting. Martha Toll considers Ed Simon’s books on angels, demons, and Faustian bargains. Architect Rick Archer on working with Ellsworth Kelly on his last project—a secular chapel at the University of Texas. Danielle Durchslag’s Jewish American performance art. Fiction by Valerie Sayers and Gemini Wahhaj. Poems by Susan L. Miller, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, and more.

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On the cover: Danielle Durschlag. Liz, 2013. Paper, tape, glue. 40 x 23 inches.