41.2 Feature: Simon Jacobs Reads THE WAYS I’LL KILL HIM / THE WAYS I’LL DIE
Simon Jacobs is the author of SATURN, a collection of David Bowie stories out now from Spork Press. He may be found at simonajacobs.blogspot.com. The Ways I'll Kill Him / The Ways I'll Die by Simon Jacobs Listen to Simon Jacobs read "The Ways I'll Kill Him /...
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...
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...
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Robert Hass
Robert Hass at the University of Alabama for the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series. All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Books, as...
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,...
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Mary Gaitskill & George Saunders
Mary Gaitskill & George Saunders for the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, March 2003 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences....
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Steve Tomasula
Steve Tomasula reads for the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series and the Black Warrior Review at the University of Alabama. All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the...
Bankhead Reading Series Archive: Natasha Tretheway & Larissa Szporluk
Natasha Tretheway & Larissa Szporluk read for the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, December 2003 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and...
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Richard Yates
Richard Yates, University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, September 1990 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Books,...
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....