by Mark Galarrita | Sep 18, 2019 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...
by Mark Galarrita | Sep 9, 2019 | Feature
Jake Syersak received his MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. He is the author of the full-length Yield Architecture (Burnside Review Books, 2018) and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared...
by Mark Galarrita | Jul 29, 2019 | Archive, Feature, Poetry Print
Edmondson & Athol Chekwube Danladi from BWR 44.1 The secret divulged like this: gyrating under the panoptic apparatus, visage blue as Uranus. This hood’s hidden axis as much tipped. These blue hands grabbing hold whatever lie...
by Mark Galarrita | Jun 27, 2019 | Feature
For Deeper Water Cassandra J. Bruner from 45.2 Note: The audio for this excerpt begins on page 12, section 2: “After I stop going to therapy…” Cassandra J. Bruner, the 2019-2020 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow, earned her MFA from Eastern...
by Mark Galarrita | Jun 21, 2019 | Feature, Fiction Print
“I am quite captivated by the emotional intelligence of ‘Tree rings, like concentric ghosts’: its internal innovative style, the heightened, hexagonal poetics of My Tran’s perception, their sharp way of interweaving cultural artifacts with art, the past (ghost), sound...
by Mark Galarrita | Jun 11, 2019 | Feature
“Let’s eat baby the steak is getting cold” is a brief story that splits the space between haunted and relatable. Surrealist and allegorical, it renders a strange object of obsession, desire, and envy—a tooth—and seduces the reader into a powerful drama of the...
