Special Online Feature I may soon love Lily Holloway Runner-up, 2024 BWR Poetry Contest “I may soon love” is a poem that reaches, that aches with restlessness. That restlessness is corralled, formally, by the end-stopped lines in the middle of the poem, that barrage...
Special Online Feature de Clérambault Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest “de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this...
Special Art Feature Pink Jesse Lee Kercheval “Pink” by Jesse Lee Kercheval is part of our issue 52.1 release. Buy a copy of the full issue at the link below. Buy Issue 52.1 Now Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, translator, and visual...
BOOK REVIEW Trans Studies Crystal Odelle Reviewed by Alayna Powell, BWR Poetry Editor Buy a Copy Trans Studies Crystal Odelle 2025 Gold Line Press 78 pages Crystal Odelle’s Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) is a collection of self-fragments; a...
Special Art Feature Missing Persons Kaya Dierks “Missing Persons” by Kaya Dierks is part of our issue 52.1 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. Buy Issue 52.1 Now Kaya Dierks is a mixed-race writer from California. Her...
“…time as a kind of language … allows me to organize the logic of a story.”: An Interview with Shastri Akella, author of “Reva Speaks a New Dialect” Shastri Akella (he/they) is a queer migrant of color who is neurodivergent and...
