The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
” ‘What it Took’ is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Poetry Editor, Kelsey Nuttall We get a new staff every year here at BWR. We (the editors) interviewed each other so that you (the world) could get a sense of who we are as readers. Interview by CHELSEA HANNA COHEN Chelsea Hanna...
The Empty by Panpan Song from BWR 46.1 I. Prayer for the Feeding of the Hungry Ghosts In the fall of 2013, I had recently moved to New York, when I ran into an acquaintance from some years ago in Shanghai. He was working for an investment bank in Midtown and said, if...
Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman from BWR 46.2 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Socratic-Recording.m4a I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true...
