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Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Bei Dao

by Black Warrior Review | Nov 10, 2014 | Archive, Feature

A reading by Bei Dao, Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, November 2005 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Books, as well as...

Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Juliana Spahr

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 27, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Juliana Spahr, University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writer’s Series, 2009 All readings were made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Books, as...

Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Archive: Charles Simic

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 13, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Charles Simic at the Bankhead Visiting Writer’s Series, University of Alabama, March 2004 All readings are made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and...

2013 Contest: A Look Back at Fiction Winner Mari Christmas

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 18, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Mari Christmas is pursuing an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canary Press and Paragraphiti. Baby by Mari Christmas “I didn’t agree to do this.” Let’s try this again. Let’s take it from the street corner. ...

2013 Contest: A Look Back at Poetry Winner Hannah Aizenman

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 15, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

Hannah Aizenman hails from Birmingham, AL, and is an MFA student in poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, plain china, Three Rivers Review, and Collision Literary Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn. History, or...

National Poetry Month: I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE ALMOST AND THE ONCE by Cindy Beebe

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 30, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

I Wanted to Write About the Almost and the Once by Cindy Beebe upon a time my mother almost worked at the Park Avenue Funeral Home. Where she would’ve styled the hair of the newly deceased population there and even the brand new babies. Her duties would...