by Black Warrior Review | Apr 17, 2015 | Archive, Feature
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “I think what appealed to me the most about...
by Black Warrior Review | Apr 27, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print
The Shape of It by Wendy Xu I wake up and inherit the world as anybody has left it. Perhaps later, some windowless thinking. A red goat stares at me from the kitchen table, his confident black eyes moving in slow passes across my face. It goes on like this. I...
by Black Warrior Review | Mar 17, 2016
40.1 | FALL/WINTER 2013 MASTHEAD EDITOR: Brandi Wells MANAGING EDITOR: Kirby Johnson FICTION EDITOR: Jake Kinstler NONFICTION EDITOR: Leia Penina Wilson POETRY EDITOR: Anne Brettell DESIGN EDITOR: Krystin Gollihue ASSISTANT FICTION...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 21, 2013 | Archive, Feature
BY AMBER VOGEL The passengers gather. The conductor smokes The last of his cigarette, leans from the door, And flicks the end away. Your steps Quicken. You are clutching your ticket And your magazine. You stop. You wheel Round, panicked by yet another Vagrant...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 16, 2013 | Archive, Feature
by JIM HILGARTNER BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 1996-1997 Cutting cordwood on the ridge Where the wind sweeps snow From fallen leaves and bracken, I paused, and stood holding the saw. Blue mountains shone Distant in the blue air. And at my feet an old plow horse,...
