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National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 28, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Jacket Copy for ‘A Yellow Pencil in Midair Kept Sketching’ by Adam Atkinson   Things are either metaphors or not in these poems. “Three ghosts pin / the tail on the reader.” Ghost or literal ghost? Literate ghosts know these poems by...
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

National Poetry Month: THE SHAPE OF IT by Wendy Xu

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 27, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

The Shape of It by Wendy Xu   I wake up and inherit the world as anybody has left it. Perhaps later, some windowless thinking. A red goat stares at me from the kitchen table, his confident black eyes moving in slow passes across my face. It goes on like this. I...

National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARAIT by Blake Lee Pate

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 26, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Exo-Secretariat by Blake Lee Pate   Exo-girl convinced the boss her girls are hot, have skirts, nice handwriting. 8:00 a.m. We’re period plagued and auto-receiving at our desks splitting our hair ends & running our stock- ings up & down the halls....
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

National Poetry Month: ANTERIOR OF A RAZED ROOM by Cori A. Winrock

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 25, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Anterior of a Razed Room by Cori A. Winrock     What corseting—: the room cinched in as the wrecking drill bores down, its metal threaded vertebrae spiraling slow through our plaster and horsehair insulation, the seven-layer wallpapers caked over and over...
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

National Poetry Month: THE SEISMOLOGIST’S TALE by Jessica Bozek

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 24, 2014 | Archive, Feature

The Seismologist’s Tale by Jessica Bozek   It was fall and the soldier’s stories made human piles of the citizens. He went directly to the center of the town and his stories spiraled outward. The few who tried to flee were held by his soothing voice. The...
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