FEATURE
42.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the Japanese folklore-inspired story collection, Where We Go When All We Are Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press). His work has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Green...
42.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Caren Beilin
“Less Then Zero” is a fan fiction of Robert Downey Jr.’s first film, Less Than Zero, which he starred in as drug addict Julian (in 1987).
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...