43.2 Feature: An Interview with Ron A. Austin
I grew up in the neighborhood explored in “Muscled Clean Out the Dirt.” My grandparents owned small businesses in the city which ended up being gutted and eaten up by urban blight despite their best efforts and hard labor.
43.2 Feature: Kaveh Akbar Reads I WON’T LIE THIS PLAGUE OF GRATITUDE
Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, will be published by Alice James Books in Fall...
43.2 Feature: An Interview with T Kira Madden
I wrote COUSIN CINDY exactly how those specific memories surrounding that specific person came to me, and it’s a meditation that can be found in most of my work—fiction or nonfiction—this reciprocity of sexual envy and cruelty.
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Liam Swanson
The trick, the danger, the organizing tension is I’m trying to write cute little poems, little breaths from the unconscious, but the unconscious is political.
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Alexander Pines
I live in Iowa now and have met only one other trans person so I read and reread Relationship, a photographic diary co-created by trans artists Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst.
Review: A COLLAPSE OF HORSES by Brian Evenson
A Collapse of Horses Brian Evenson 2016 Coffee House Press 270 pages Review by MICHELLE MEYERS I have, on occasion, referred to this book by the wrong title, A Collapse of Horrors rather than A Collapse of Horses. I imagine the slip perhaps resulting from the...
43.2 Feature: An Interview with Zeynep Özakat
I gave the girls wings as a way of symbolizing their otherness in a very literal way.
43.2 Sneak Peek: CONFLICT RESOLUTION by Alethea Tusher
Alethea Tusher recently earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame. She has work published in Hardly Doughnuts, Toad, and PRØOF. Right-click and "open image in new tab" for a larger version. To read Alethea Tusher's work...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Editor Gail Aronson
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 NABILA LOVELACE Nabila Lovelace: What brought you to the project of BWR? Gail...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Nonfiction Editor Nabila Lovelace
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 SHELLEY FELLER shelley feller: You’re one of the busiest people I know—in a...