Thank you to Editor April Michelle Bratten of Up the Staircase Quarterly for selecting my poem —" 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' " written after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire — to appear in Issue 71. I first drafted this poem in November 2018.

Thank you to Bessette for the spectacular portent of her work, for calling our beige bluff, and for the "Mi-ombre. Mi-lumière." of Ida.

I hope you’ll have a look at all of Issue 71, which is now home to work from Rita Mookerjee, Maddie Barone, Rayne Alarcio, James King, Ophelia Wen, Mk Smith Despres, Vikki C., Lizzy Ke Polishan, and Michelle Li, a cover drawing from Lauren Rinaldi and watercolors by Julie Epp.