by Black Warrior Review | Dec 21, 2019 | Feature, Poetry Print
“David Joez Villaverde’s “La Piedra de los Doce Ángulos” explores the self as record, confession, revelation, and gospel, and refuses the ellipsis and compression expected of contemporary Western poetry by insisting on density and presence, entering a trancelike...
by Jackson Saul | Oct 26, 2019 | Archive, Chapbook Print, Feature, Poetry Print
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 Planetary Bodies for Online Click here to read Planetary Bodies as a PDF. Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator, writer, editor, & artist currently living in New Mexico. She is the author of three chapbooks, Shadow...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 8, 2019 | Feature, Poetry Print
h/ow s/imple a v/irus h/ow s/imple a v/irus Aurielle Marie from 45.2 Read by the author. For a PDF of Aurielle’s poem, click here. you ...
by Black Warrior Review | Jul 29, 2019 | Archive, Feature, Poetry Print
Edmondson & Athol Chekwube Danladi from BWR 44.1 The secret divulged like this: gyrating under the panoptic apparatus, visage blue as Uranus. This hood’s hidden axis as much tipped. These blue hands grabbing hold whatever lie...
by Black Warrior Review | Aug 9, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print
“This author has confected a compelling new uncanny life form under the sign of the slime mold. With phrases of lyric flight, garlands of theory, camouflaged confession, diagrams and screenshots, this piece is something like an essay, something like a collage,...
by Black Warrior Review | Jul 23, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print
At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet moves...
