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Solum Journal Volume IV is the fourth issue of the Solum Journal series, an imprint of Solum Literary Press. Solum Journal is a Christian literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, homilies, and visual art. This is the first themed issue in the series, centering on grief, loss, and doubt from a Christian perspective. Includes work by Katy Carl, Lindsay Schlegel, Ryanne Molinari, Katrina Hayes, Sally Thomas, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Carla Galdo, Tamara Nicholl-Smith, and Lesley-Anne Evans, among others.

In her full-length debut, Kristina Erny questions whether sustenance will come in the desert places in her faith and what it might mean to journey forward anyway. In meditations set within imagery in 1 Kings, Erny deftly borrows the voices of long-dead prophets, widows, and ravens to explore her own contemporary faith-life, becoming the angel nudging herself forward.Everyday human moments of grief, longing, desire, and doubt sit alongside celebrations of simple life. Empty boxes, kids drawings, buzzards and drives to school become laced with the Divine. They are the remaking of a world in which the smallest of things can be holy and joy comes from watching for the bread that shows up in the most bloody of beaks. The poems do not deliver answers, but practice an unfolding of new questions. They cry out: In the everyday we are resurrected and made new.

Solum Journal Volume II is the second issue of the Solum Journal series, an imprint of Solum Literary Press. Solum Journal is a Christian literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, homilies, and visual art. Includes work by Devon Balwit, Mattea Gernentz, Jonathan Chan, Jamie A. Hughes, Laura Reece Hogan, Sarah Law, Matthew Miller, Paul J. Pastor, Elizabeth Genovise, and Ryan Diaz.

Solum Journal Volume III is the third issue of the Solum Journal series, an imprint of Solum Literary Press. Solum Journal is a Christian literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, homilies, and visual art. Includes work by Kristina Erny, Jeff Hardin, Jonathan Chan, Whitney Rio-Ross, Elizabeth Bates, Patrick T. Reardon, Ben Egerton, Elizabeth Genovise, Thomas Allbaugh, and Seth Wieck, among others.

Alone on the interstellar ship Vessel, billions of light-years from his home, Tennar is confronted by a sudden, overpowering memory of a painting from the house where he grew up. This memory sets off a sequence of events -- both internal and external -- that lead him through a labyrinthine meditation on memory, solitude, and the interplay of these two elements on knowledge. And as the ship continues its search for the absolute void, the terminus of created space that it's been designed to reach; Tennar, within the ship, gradually approaches Vessel's conceptual center and, he hopes, a more complete realization of his sudden memory and its significance."Drew Reichard is attuned to the vastness of space and the smallest movements of the human soul. Vessel is a story of both sorts of distance. It is surprising, original, and filled with wonder."- Mark Kissler"When I read [Reichard's] work, I watch for something I could never have imagined, but which he makes me totally believe in. And what I believe in is a character caught in a world so different from our own, but strangely familiar in its motivations and urgings...His tone and diction are often the largest part of the story, in that they convey character and attitudinal motives that play out in the fantastic worlds and situations he creates. I was his writing teacher once; now, I read his work to figure out how he does what he does."- Gary D. Schmidt, professor of English at Calvin University and two-time Newbery winner for his books Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and The Wednesday Wars.Andrew Reichard is an author who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and twin boys. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Collagist, Black Static, Exacting Clam (forthcoming), Space & Time Magazine, and others, including the first two volumes of Solum Journal. This is his first published book. Connect with him on Twitter @DrewReichard.

Mature poetic craft deftly does its job on every page of this gathering of new and selected poems. Timothy E. G. Bartel knows precisely how to use ageless poetic tools -- metrics, metaphor, allusion -- to elicit ageless responses from us: joy, grief, wonder. He brings gentle humor, wide curiosity, and an understanding of human nature to the task. Really, what more can we ask of poetry?-- Jane Greer, author of The World as We Know It Is Falling AwayWhen Moses had escaped from slavery(Many years before he was called Abba)He settled on the best course for his life:To be a thief and lead a crew of thieves.So begins Timothy E. G. Bartel's series of sonnets on Moses the Ethiopian, one of the greatest saints of the ancient Christian world. Alongside the life of St. Moses, Bartel also presents a new version of the story of Camilla, the tragic warrior of Virgil's Aeneid, whose dedication to the goddess of Diana leads her through battle and death to glory. Sonnets, hymns, elegiac couplets, and translations round out this collection, in which Bartel explores the worlds of history, legend, and nature.Also included are selected poems from Bartel's earlier publications, including Arroyos: Sijos and Other Poems (2015) and The Martyr, The Grizzly, The Gold: Poems (2012).Timothy E. G. Bartel is a poet and professor from California. He is the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, including Aflame but Unconsumed: Poems (Kelsay Books, 2019) and The Heroines of Henry Longfellow: Domestic, Defiant, Divine (Lexington, 2022). Timothy currently serves as Professor of Great Texts and Writing at Saint Constantine College.