Welcome to The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 18! Our featured poet this year is Shane Wagner. We're excited to include the two special sections that continue to expand our local poetry circle: one of them is guest-edited by poet John T. Trigonis, and another one is dedicated to Montclair High School poets. Our main poetry section is curated by Arthur Russell and includes many new names, alongside our core group. You can also admire the black and white photos by Donald Zirilli on the section frontispieces. All this exciting work is wrapped up in a beautiful dark cover, featuring a gorgeous peony digital collage by Frank Rubino. We hope you'll find this edition inspiring, a slice of the best contemporary writing in New Jersey and New York. We also hope that The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 18 will motivate each one of you to continue to write, create, and attend our weekly workshops on Zoom and our monthly events at The Felician University Little Theater. Our community and annual journal are proving this year once again that the William Carlos Williams legacy is still going strong in Rutherford, where the epic is indeed the local fully realized. The good doctor would be so proud.