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45.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jake Syersak

by Black Warrior Review | 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...

From the Archives: Edmondson & Athol by Chekwube Danladi

by Black Warrior Review | 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...

45.2 Sneak Peek: “For Deeper Water” by Cassandra J. Bruner

by Black Warrior Review | 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...

45.2 Feature: Dickinson kept a Carlo by My Tran

by Black Warrior Review | 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...

2018 Flash Contest Runner-Up Alice Maglio

by Black Warrior Review | 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...

2018 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up: J’Lyn Chapman

by Black Warrior Review | May 6, 2019 | Feature

“There is a beautiful moment in this meditation on nature, language, and motherhood which made me fall in love with it—the narrator writes of reading Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette, in bed, the summer after her daughter was born, which moves into Brontë’s...