Palaver Arts Magazine's cover for the Spring 2026 issue, featuring art of a warped green abstract body ("Ego" from the issue) on a black background


Cover artwork by Emily Jingzhu Bennett

Art

After Hours

Qiyue Wu

A photograph of a street eatery at night with different patrons

Cacophony of Sleep

Genevieve Marino

Paper collage of paintings of sleeping people, one woman caressing another's head

Ego

Emily Jingzhu Bennett

A bright green acrylic ink painting of a warped abstract body

Gift

Jasmine Liu

A digital collage of a pink and blue background, pink flower silhouette, with a white flower overlaid in the center.

Insect Heads

Garrett Goodrum

Clay sculpture of wasp head

Media

Dance Your Fears Away

Sandy Ayala

a balet dancer dancing

Peripheral

Alison Church

A man and woman lounge on an outdoor cot outside a house and next to a clothes line.

Taraji

Davon Cecil

A woman sits in a chair in her house

Prose

The Anchorage Day

Margaret Danenhauer

The LAPD Helicopter Over Campus

Margaret Danenhauer

Ma

Ruoer Su

Who Knows?

Petr Lobanov

Poetry

A Printed Record for This Battle

Lucian Frisby

De La Luz

Fiorela Echano

Her Withering Voice Locked Away in Twilight

Yiniu Chen

on when I almost got dragged downstream and died

Chloe Bay

Smoke Trail

Regina Duran