FEATURE
42.1 Feature: Jessica Alexander Reads “Things We Have Had to Overcome”
We were always hunting mother. Down the spiraled staircase, through the gallery, into a million ill-tuned rooms…
42.1 Feature: Alex McElroy Reads “Modes of Mortality: A Review of Pa Seidel’s Oeuvre”
42.1 contributor Alex McElroy reads segments from his essay, accompanied by illustrations by Allegra Hyde.
42.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Shamala Gallagher
I don’t believe in “craft,” but I believe in self-frustration—blood-frustration that rattles the edges of the person and rattles its core.
41.2 Feature: Bess Winter Reads “You Play with Dolls”
Bess Winter’s fiction and non-fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and appears in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, A Strange Object’s Covered With Fur, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Toronto and is currently a PhD student at University of Cincinnati.
41.2 Feature: An Interview with Emily Goodman Means
Emily Goodman Means is currently completing her MFA at Brown University. She is a co-editor of A Perimeter and her poems are forthcoming from Lana Turner Journal. Interview by BETHANY STARTIN Listen to Emily Goodman Means read section 1 of "Dulia" from 41.2. Listen...
National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARIAT by Blake Lee Pate
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. "Blake Lee Pate’s ‘Exo-Secretariat’ tackles workplace...
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘THE COP FOLLOWED FRANK INTO THE DINER’ by Adam Atkinson
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. "Jacket Copy for The Cop Followed Frank Into the...
National Poetry Month: HOLIDAY by Wendy Xu
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. "I think what appealed to me the most about...
2014 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up MOTHER TONGUE by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer received her MA in Women's Studies from Loyola University Chicago, and is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. She has been published in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, and The Water~Stone Review among many others. She is an...
National Poetry Month: from A HUNDRED THOUSAND HOURS by Gro Dahle
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. "This sequence strikes me more and more each time I...