40th Anniversary Feature: IN THIS SMALL WORLD & I LEFT THE COMFORT OF THE SEA
By MARK NEELY BWR Poetry Editor, 2000-2001 In this small world In this small world there is a starfish pressed on the beach like a crippled hand. A crumpled baby picture, the handsome strangers of the internet, and Bin Laden’s tiny television. Pine trees...
40th Anniversary Feature: FROM THE LOOKOUT BOOK
By JANET MCADAMS BWR Editor, 1986-1987 If white is the color of mischief, then these white walls, this little house of marble we hide behind willing the man with his notebook to find someone else to follow. We hide, kin to bone, to tuft of fur caught in the...
40th Anniversary Feature: THE MUSEUM OF MISSING THINGS
By COLLEEN HOLLISTER BWR Fiction Editor, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 The museum hangs with birds. The back rooms swim with airplanes. In the night, you will want to see an explosion. In the night, you will be walking in the gardens—the gardens will be dark with...
40th Anniversary Feature: DELTA 88
By CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS BWR Editor, 1997-1999 One day Veronica told me she wanted to visit her boyfriend Geoffrey who was at that time incarcerated in Duluth. I had never met Geoffrey, who had, long before I met her, given Veronica a fur coat. I wasn’t looking...