2016 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Kirsten Ihns
Kirsten Ihns is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and will be a Ph.D. student in the English Literature program at UChicago in the fall. She is grateful to Felicity Nussbaum/her book The Autobiographical Subject, from which one of her...
43.2 Feature: Melissa R. Sipin Reads MY LOLA, THE RIVER
Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Nicknamed “small but terrible” by her lola, Melissa R. Sipin was born and raised in Carson, CA. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things (Carayan Press 2014) and is Editor-in-Chief of TAYO Literary Magazine. Her work...
2016 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu (b. 1984) is a writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Africana Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts, where he was the inaugural Truman Capote Literary Fellow....
National Poetry Month: from HOUSE OF DEER by Sasha Steensen
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “In an excerpt from “House of Deer,” Sasha...