Local Spotlight: An Interview with Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU), where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including the Academy of American Poets, Tupelo...
2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah María Medina’s “From a Poet to her Rumbero”
At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet moves...
From the Archives: Pollution People by C Pam Zhang
Pollution People C Pam Zhang from BWR 44.1 An hour south of the border and Dad tips over with a whump that makes the forest explode like a cutscene. The ancient car rattles, Nim brakes into a gully, and shrapnel flings from the trees. Nim waits for death. But...
Review: BLUETS by Maggie Nelson
Centaura cyanus Not Maggie Nelson Planted March 3rd Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Transplanting not recommended Review by SELMS I don’t read much memoir (people generally bore me), so I was late to reading Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. There is much that can be said about...