46.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jessica Lanay Jessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor to BOMB Magazine where you can find her interviews with Howardena Pindell, El Anatsui, Alan Michelson, and others. Her...
The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman from BWR 46.2 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Socratic-Recording.m4a I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true...
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Dennison Ty Schultz Dennison Ty Schultz is a queer poet and MFA student at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Impossible Archetype, Foglifter, Peach Mag, New Delta Review, Fugue, Glass:...
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Hisham Bustani Photo credit: Lubna Wardeh. Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. He is acclaimed for his bold style and unique narrative voice, and often experiments with the...
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...
