42.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Shamala Gallagher
Shamala Gallagher’s chapbook I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke is forthcoming this year from dancing girl press. Her poems and essays have appeared in VOLT, Verse Daily, Copper Nickel, RealPoetik, The Offending Adam, LikeStarlings, and...
41.2 Feature: Bess Winter Reads “You Play with Dolls”
Bess Winter’s fiction and non-fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and appears in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, A Strange Object’s Covered With Fur, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in...
41.2 Feature: An Interview with Emily Goodman Means
Emily Goodman Means is currently completing her MFA at Brown University. She is a co-editor of A Perimeter and her poems are forthcoming from Lana Turner Journal. Interview by BETHANY STARTIN Listen to Emily Goodman Means read section 1 of “Dulia” from...
National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARIAT by Blake Lee Pate
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “Blake Lee Pate’s ‘Exo-Secretariat’ tackles...