


Local Spotlight: Emma Bolden reads Finishing School
Finishing School Emma Bolden from Havens Couldn’t sugar. Couldn’t sweet right. Couldn’t rat- comb, couldn’t tease the boys with a belt and a bra, Madonna coned. Couldn’t talk lady. Couldn’t coo. Couldn’t bless the heart of Jesus till...Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was Emma Bolden In the first frenzied firestorm of pro-Trump extremism, my liberal views made me a lightning rod in my workplace, and I got hit. I lost everything: the life and career I’d built so...BWR Pushcart Nominations!
We at BWR are immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works that appeared in our pages for the Pushcart Prize! Please join us in congratulating these writers! Tyrese Coleman, “Speculum” from BWR issue 45.1, Fall/Winter 2018 Bertha Isabel...