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Auto-Da-Fé: Confession and Camouflage by M.J. Gette

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,...

2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah María Medina’s “From a Poet to her Rumbero”

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...

From the Archives: Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 by Aristilde Kirby

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 25, 2018 | Chapbook Print, Feature, Poetry Print

Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 Aristilde Kirby from BWR 44.1 Aristilde Justine Kirby (27 | 4/11/1991) is a poet, Louise Montalescot’s daughter, amateur chansonnier, recovering overthinker, picaresque girl & paper champion. She has chapbooks...

44.2 Sneak Peek: THE NIGHTGOWN by Taisia Kitaiskaia

by Black Warrior Review | Mar 20, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print

Taisia Kitaiskaia is the author of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers (Hachette/Seal), illustrated by Katy Horan, and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles (Andrews McMeel). She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center...

44.2 Sneak Peek: MARY by Carlina Duan

by Black Warrior Review | Feb 28, 2018 | Chapbook Print, Feature, Poetry Print

Carlina Duan hails from Michigan, and is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and Narrative Magazine, among others. She is a current MFA Candidate at...

44.1 Feature: sam sax Reads S A T Y R I A S I S

by Black Warrior Review | Nov 13, 2017 | Feature, Poetry Print

sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the NEA, Lambda Literary, &...