Special Online Feature I may soon love Lily Holloway Runner-up, 2024 BWR Poetry Contest “I may soon love” is a poem that reaches, that aches with restlessness. That restlessness is corralled, formally, by the end-stopped lines in the middle of the poem, that barrage...
Special Online Feature de Clérambault Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest “de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this...
BOOK REVIEW Trans Studies Crystal Odelle Reviewed by Alayna Powell, BWR Poetry Editor Buy a Copy Trans Studies Crystal Odelle 2025 Gold Line Press 78 pages Crystal Odelle’s Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) is a collection of self-fragments; a...
Special Art Feature Missing Persons Kaya Dierks “Missing Persons” by Kaya Dierks is part of our issue 52.1 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. Buy Issue 52.1 Now Kaya Dierks is a mixed-race writer from California. Her...
Reva Speaks a New Dialect by Shastri Akella BWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-up Reva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
Mold Vincit Omnia Mariah Gese from BWR 51.1 View mobile-friendly version here… “Mold Vincit Omnia” by Mariah Gese is featured in Black Warrior Review issue 51.1, now available in our store We’re thrilled to showcase the full-color version of Martin’s work here...
