FEATURE
2015 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up THREE GREAT LYRIC PASSAGES by Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin is the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013). He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and he was the inaugural winner of The Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Award for Veterans. He teaches at Gettysburg College. 2015 nonfiction judge Mary...
42.2 Feature: Shelley Puhak’s Multimedia Guide through “Eva, she kill her one daughter”
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Shelley Puhak is a poet and essayist from Baltimore. She is the author of two poetry collections, the more recent of which, Guinevere in Baltimore, was selected by Charles Simic for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize....
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...