41.2 Feature: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao

Sally Wen Mao is the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), which is the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2013 and is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Indiana...

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Review: IN PRAISE OF USEFULNESS by Angela Patten

In Praise of Usefulness Angela Patten 2014 Wind Ridge Books 73 pages Review by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI In Praise of Usefulness, Angela Patten’s third collection of poetry, meditates on the boundaries between childhood and adulthood and Ireland and America. The recurring...

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Review: DARKMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN by Jay Ponteri

Darkmouth Strikes Again Jay Ponteri 2014 Future Tense Books 32 pages Review by MATT POSKY On the page Jay Ponteri comes across as a deeply unhappy man with common but ferocious demons that he needs to have exorcised immediately. His debut work, Wedlocked: A Memoir,...

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Submissions Now Open & Other News

Dear Readers, General submissions to Black Warrior Review’s prose, poetry, nonfiction, and graphic prose genres will open on December 1st. We welcome all of your submissions, especially the experimental works, the lyrical fragments, and everything in-between....

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