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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...

National Poetry Month: IMAGINE IF EVERYONE YOU EVER LOVED NEVER STOPPED by Kallie Falandays

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 29, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped by Kallie Falandays Touching you. If you never stopped changing: You’re still in your bedroom: blue lamp-light, still teenage-hurt, no alarm clock. How do you get up in the morning after being held down by so...

National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 28, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Jacket Copy for ‘A Yellow Pencil in Midair Kept Sketching’ by Adam Atkinson Things are either metaphors or not in these poems. “Three ghosts pin / the tail on the reader.” Ghost or literal ghost? Literate ghosts know these poems by...

National Poetry Month: THE SHAPE OF IT by Wendy Xu

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 27, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

The Shape of It by Wendy Xu I wake up and inherit the world as anybody has left it. Perhaps later, some windowless thinking. A red goat stares at me from the kitchen table, his confident black eyes moving in slow passes across my face. It goes on like this. I...