BWR at AWP Chicago 2012

Please enjoy with us these highlights from our AWP Chicago experience.  We asked our contributors to visit us and pose with the issue their work appeared in.  First up: Dana Levin with BWR 38.1 and BWR's mascot, Gumby-in-a-Banana-Costume, Champion of AWP (title...

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AWP Excitement

We’ll be debuting issue 38.2, the Umbrella Issue, with pieces by our contest winners, a chapbook by Dawn Pendergast, and work by Jon Davis, Lucy Corin, Kate Greenstreet, Joshua Harmon, Donald Platt, and other awesome people. Be sure to visit our table (We’re A2). We...

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An Interview with GC Waldrep

Interview by LISA TALLIN Black Warrior Review: So first of all I just wanted to ask you—you had a reading last night, and how do you feel reading your work out loud? GC Waldrep: How do I feel? I like to read my work out loud. I trained as a singer and the idea that...

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An Interview with Noy Holland

Interview by JUAN CARLOS REYES Black Warrior Review: There is no particular way to get this started.  I usually start with an icebreaker question…  How are you enjoying Tuscaloosa so far? Noy Holland: It’s good. I met a lot of nice people. Yeah, I like the trees.  I...

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Sound Art 37.2 – The Nudity Issue

Issue 37.2: The Nudity Issue Welcome to the sound art component of Black Warrior Review's latest feature—Nudity. Below you'll find an article about nudity and music by Cordelia Brodsky as well as original tracks from some of our favorite sound artists: loscil, Andrew...

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Sound Art 37.1 – The Degeneration Issue

Issue 37.1: The Degeneration Issue Welcome to the sound art component of Black Warrior Review's latest feature - Degeneration. Below you'll find an interpretation of degenerative music by critic Brendan Finney as well as original tracks from some of our favorite sound...

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An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark

Interview by JUAN REYES Black Warrior Review: How does setting play into your writing? Sabrina Orah Mark: I generally like the sleepy towns, the quietness. I’m living in Athens, Georgia, now, which is filled with ghosts, so that becomes inspiring. I lived in Iowa City...

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Review: A HISTORY OF WAVES by Haines Eason

A History of Waves Haines Eason 2010 Poetry Society of America 25 pages Review by J. KIRK MAYNARD Haines Eason’s first chapbook A History of Waves (selected by Mark Doty for the 2010 New American Poets chapbook series) begins with a displacement: Who touched who with...

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Review: FIND THE GIRL by Lightsey Darst

Find the Girl Lightsey Darst 2010 Coffeehouse Press 88 pages Review by FARREN STANLEY The sexualization of women—and a girl’s desire to achieve power by becoming an object of sexual interest—is one prevalent sign of a seriously ailing culture. In drawing the reader’s...

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