FEATURE
National Poetry Month: from HOUSE OF DEER by Sasha Steensen
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. "In an excerpt from “House of Deer,” Sasha Steensen...
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by James A.H. White
While in line with a few friends to clench my way through Disneyworld’s Hollywood Studios’ The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a ride that mimics the (repeated) plummeting of a 13-story service elevator, I eavesdropped on the young boy and girl waiting behind me as they asked their father what exactly it was they were about to experience.
National Poetry Month: MYSTERY WRITTEN INSIDE MY PALM by Beth Bachmann
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. "How intriguing a palm is. A word, a shape, a...
43.2 Feature: Kaveh Akbar Reads I WON’T LIE THIS PLAGUE OF GRATITUDE
Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, will be published by Alice James Books in Fall...
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Liam Swanson
The trick, the danger, the organizing tension is I’m trying to write cute little poems, little breaths from the unconscious, but the unconscious is political.
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Alexander Pines
I live in Iowa now and have met only one other trans person so I read and reread Relationship, a photographic diary co-created by trans artists Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst.
43.2 Sneak Peek: An excerpt from LIMNOLOGY: A MEMOIR by Sally J. Johnson
I am an unreliable narrator but that would mean more if I were a man.
43.2 Sneak Peek: I COULD LOVE THESE WOMEN by MR Sheffield
MR Sheffield is a graduate of FAU's MFA program. She lives in Boca Raton, FL with her husband, son, dog, and cat. All five of them love cheese. Even the cat. Her work has been published in The Florida Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pank, and other publications....
43.2 Sneak Peek: CONFLICT RESOLUTION by Alethea Tusher
Alethea Tusher recently earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame. She has work published in Hardly Doughnuts, Toad, and PRØOF. Right-click and "open image in new tab" for a larger version. To read Alethea Tusher's work...
43.1 Feature: An Interview with Eric Tran
Click here for more 43.1 featured content. Eric Tran is a medical student at the University of North Carolina and holds an MFA from UNCW. He is the winner of the 2015 New Delta Review Matt Clark Prose Award and was a finalist in the 2015 Indiana Review 1/2K Prize and...