Thirty-Eight: Issue 38 includes Illuminations' usual wide range of poems from the United States and around the world, including translations from Dutch and classical Japanese. Visually, the magazine is graced by artwork by La Vaughn Belle, a multi-medium artist from the US Virgin Islands.
Thirty-Seven: Issue 37 includes translations from Dutch and Spanish, and poems from all around the United States as well as Holland, Spain, Bermuda, Dominica, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Visually, the magazine is graced by a cover image of the beautiful fiber art of Cookie Washington.
Thirty-Six: Issue 36 includes the work of more than 30 poets from the US and around the world, including poems by St. Lucian poet John Robert Lee, and translations from Arabic, Greek, and Spanish. Visually, the magazine is graced by the spectacular photography of Guinean-Swiss artist Namsa Leuba.
Thirty-Five: Dedicated to the "Queen of the Small Presses," Lyn Lifshin, issue 35 includes the work of poets from the US, UK, Mexico and Spain, as well as artwork by Charleston-based artist Colin Quashie from his series "Linked."
Thirty-Four: Issue 34 includes Illuminations' usual wide range of poems and translations from the United States and around the world, and features photographs from Michelle Van Parys's "Beyond the Plantations: Images of the New South."
Thirty-Three: Issue 33 includes a special feature on Cuba, with poems by Gustavo Perez Firmat, Carolina Hospital, Juan Padron, Felipe Lazaro, and others, as well as song-lyrics by Luis Barberia, and art-work by Roberto Diago, introduced by Elvis Fuentes.
Thirty-Two (Summer '18): special South African issue guest-edited and introduced by award-winning South African poet Kobus Moolman; features work by South Africa's leading English-language poets, including Ingrid de Kok, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Vonani Bila, Kelwyn Sole, Joan Metelerkamp, Mkhosazana Xaba, Angifi Dladla, Julia Martin, Gabeba Baderoon, and many more. Interviews with Lesego Rampolokeng, and Witty Nyide, as well as three linocuts by Ms Nyide.
Thirty-One (Summer '16): poems and prose-pieces addressing the mass shooting at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston in June 2015 and race relations more generally. Writers featured include South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, and other local writers (Matthew Foley, Marcus Amaker, Derek Berry, et al.), as well as British author Colin Grant. The issue also includes a previously unpublished interview with Seamus Heaney recorded in 1984.
Thirty (Summer '15): Poetry from the United States and around the world; translations from Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Spanish; and previously unpublished interviews with Michael Hamburger, J. Chester Johnson, and Tom Paulin.
Twenty-Nine (Summer '13): Special Greek issue, including work by Lili Bita, Manya Bean, Nicholas Alexiou, Nikiforos Vrettakos, Basil Rouskas, Tasos Leivaditis, Adonis Fostieris, and many more.
Twenty-Eight (Summer '12): Featuring poems by Ruth Schwartz, Simon Perchik, Patricia Nelson and many more. Translated works of Casimiro de Brito and Koh Jung-hee, and photography by Lisa Jones Atkins.
Twenty-Seven (Summer '11): Including poems by American, British, Ecuadorian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Nigerian, South African, and Zimbabwean writers and featuring artwork by David Stern.
Twenty-Six (Summer '10): Including new poems by American, British, Chinese, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, South African, and Zimbabwean writers, and featuring previously unpublished poems by Dennis Brutus. Cover design by Erin Perkins.