45.2 Feature: “Planetary Bodies” by Naima Yael Tokunow
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 Click here to read Planetary Bodies as a PDF. Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator,...
From the archives: Last Days, Part 1 by Tamiko Beyer from BWR 45.1
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...
From the Archives: Edmondson & Athol by Chekwube Danladi
Edmondson & Athol Chekwube Danladi from BWR 44.1 The secret divulged like this: gyrating under the panoptic apparatus, visage blue as Uranus. This hood’s hidden axis as much tipped. These blue hands grabbing hold whatever lie...
Shadow Memories from Desire: A Haunting by Molly Gaudry
Shadow Memories Molly Gaudry from BWR 41.1 Molly Gaudry is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of We Take Me Apart, which was...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Fiction Editor, Chase Burke
I like weird stuff
Review: IN THE WOODS OF MEMORY by Shun Medoruma
What does it mean to metaphorize memory as a forest when the trees have been bombed to splinter and ash?
Meet the Editors: An interview with the Poetry Editor, J. Taylor Boyd
I would prefer BWR to be an underwater space: weightless, quiet, vibrant, borderless, and, most importantly, hospitable to merfolk and monsters.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Managing Editor, Wendy Dinwiddie
The bourbon you’ve got, obviously.
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Aristilde Kirby
The poem as translation, the star collapsing on itself, a collective locus for brightness in the infinitude of space has potential for renewal outside the bounds of copyright.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Nonfiction Editor, Elizabeth Theriot
It's a new year and new staff here at BWR. We (the editors) interviewed each other so that you (the world) could get a sense of us as editors/readers. We're pleased to meet you! Interview by CAT INGRID LEECHES Cat Ingrid Leeches: You entered UA...