The second volume of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression starts off with a symbolic twist in this first issue. Mario Susko, Helen W. Mallon, and Linda MacKillop headline this issue, but that's not all. Powerful fiction by John Keats, David Borofka, Meg Sefton, Joyce Magnin Moccero, Kirsten Eve Beachy, and Jeremy Burgess launch you into a new frame of mind. Creative nonfiction by J. Stephen Rhodes, Jeff E. Brooks-Harris, Allison Smythe, and Ross Kennerly will move you towards thinking deeper. Poetry by Frederick Lord, Maryann Corbett, Jenn Blair, Rick Mullin, Chris Flowers, Katie Manning, Hannah E. Fries, Michael Martin, Sally Rosen Kindred, Brian G. Phipps, Maureen Doyle McQuerry, Barry L. Dunlap, Meredith Stewart, Katherine Nicole Lee, Justin Whitmel Earley, and Hannah Faith Notess will ask you to interact with verse in a new way. Start your literary year off right with some serious Relief