Black Warrior Review

Remembrance and Against Remembrance: Unforgetting Private Charles and Encountering History

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 3, 2019 | Reviews

Unforgetting Private Charles Smith Jonathan Locke Hart 2019 Athabasca University Press 80 pages Review by Chengru HeI was teaching a first-year composition class, themed on Image, History, and Digital Archive, this spring. What is an archive? None of my students had...

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by Black Warrior Review | Jun 30, 2019 | News

You have the option of donating a contest submission to a writer for the genre of their choice.Writers receiving donations and donors get a year-long subscription to BWR.You can gift a contest submission to a writer you know OR you can choose to donate a submission...

45.2 Sneak Peek: “For Deeper Water” by Cassandra J. Bruner

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 27, 2019 | Feature

For Deeper Water Cassandra J. Bruner from 45.2 Note: The audio for this excerpt begins on page 12, section 2: “After I stop going to therapy…” Cassandra J. Bruner, the 2019-2020 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow, earned her MFA from Eastern...

45.2 Feature: Dickinson kept a Carlo by My Tran

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 21, 2019 | Feature, Fiction Print

“I am quite captivated by the emotional intelligence of ‘Tree rings, like concentric ghosts’: its internal innovative style, the heightened, hexagonal poetics of My Tran’s perception, their sharp way of interweaving cultural artifacts with art, the past (ghost), sound...

45.2 Feature: An Interview with David Joez Villaverde – 2018 BWR Poetry Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 17, 2019 | Interviews

David Joez Villaverde has recently appeared in Yemassee, RHINO, The Indianapolis Review, and Gravel. He was a finalist for the Antioch-Frontier Fellowship and received a scholarship to attend the Bear River Writers’ Conference. Follow him on Twitter @AcademicJuggalo...