“David Joez Villaverde’s “La Piedra de los Doce Ángulos” explores the self as record, confession, revelation, and gospel, and refuses the ellipsis and compression expected of contemporary Western poetry by insisting on density and presence, entering a trancelike...
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 Planetary Bodies for Online Click here to read Planetary Bodies as a PDF. Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator, writer, editor, & artist currently living in New Mexico. She is the author of three chapbooks, Shadow...
45.2 feature: Craft Essay by Sophie Paquette Sophie Paquette is from Bloomington, Indiana. Her work has appeared in The Rupture, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She is a freshman at Columbia College in New York....
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...
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...
