What, ultimately, are we doing here?

Jeff Whitney is the author of, among other chapbooks, Sixteen Stories (Flume Press, 2023) and Good Things Are Happening (GreenTower Press, 2026), winner of the Laurel Review Midwest Chapbook Contest. Recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship, he has recently published poems in Alaska Quarterly Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and The Southern Review. He lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon. More at jeffwhitneypoetry.com. (updated 4/2026)