Editorial

Failure exists in many forms and scales. In science it ranges from spilled agar to oil spills; in poetry, from missed rhyme schemes to systematic erasure and oppression of certain viewpoints. Some failures allow for growth, and some are unforgivable. In most instances, failure is a positive catalyst for change that should be embraced; yet despite its crucial role in advancing knowledge, failure is something even scientists struggle to embrace. Yet failures are essential for the progression of scientific research: every negative result, unexpected reaction, or disproved hypothesis acts as a stepping stone towards new discoveries and understandings.

Poems

A bacterial cell wall’s view of penicillin by Stephen Paul Wren

Al-Chemists by Lynn White

As The World Turns by Eileen F Hugo

Beauty by Lana Norris

Chocolate by Martin Zarrop

Community by Teddy G. Goetz

dropstone by Hannele Luhtasela

East of Zero by Clint Wastling

First Rank Chicken by Kay Keenan

(im)mortal by Jay Heins

Instead of dread by Bobby Rose King

Mendel's Prayer by Angie Lo

My dreams by Gaby Sambuccetti

On the Extraction of a Wisdom Tooth by Simon Williams

Popillia japonica by Beth McDermott

Quince by Hilary Sideris

the boiler man comes to do the service by Rachel Burns

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