FEATURE
2019 Poetry Contest Runner-Up Kamden Hilliard
The nēnē bird, AKA, the Hawaiian goose, AKA, how birds state need
amidst emergency, economic development, pimped rainbows, & pricey
neighbors
From the Archives: “The Coffin, the Ship” by Mel Kassel
At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire.
2019 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Rosana Cruz
" 'What it Took' is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often beautiful and vicious...
From the Archives: “The Empty” by Panpan Song
This much was true: nothing very bad happened. Nothing big.
46.2 Feature: “Socratic Wig” by Sara Kachelman
Socratic Wigby Sara Kachelmanfrom BWR 46.2I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true redhead. It was referring to my mother. She was the last true redhead, and now she was dead. We had...
46.2 Feature: “Extermination” by Mónica Ramón Ríos (trans. Robin Myers)
Exterminationby Mónica Ramón RíosTranslated from the Spanish by Robin Myersfrom BWR 46.2The Extermination showed up a few weeks before the machines came to Zanjón de la Aguada and drained the swamp (rank, fetid, black). That’s what I called him because he didn’t scare...
46.2 Feature: “Bereavement Table for a Top Model Imagined” by Stine An
Bereavement Table for a Top Model ImaginedStine Anfrom BWR 46.2 For a PDF click here.1993. 10. 24 (Reward) :: Die for one’s country, little woman, like hometown patriot martyr Ryu Gwan-sun, MissKorea In Memoriam Again: propagate your post, a coronet casket, a...
46.1 Feature: “The Saltwater African says,” by Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley
Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley received their MFA in Poetry from UMass-Amherst’s program for Poets & Writers and is currently a PhD student in UMass-Amherst’s African American Studies department. They're an alum of Winter Tangerine's...
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Dennison Ty Schultz
The lives of these characters challenged the narrative of Islamic history that we were taught: a homogenous, essentialist, monotonous, opaque, rigid fundamentalism that replaced the vivid, complex, historical, diverse, expressive human history.
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Hisham Bustani
The lives of these characters challenged the narrative of Islamic history that we were taught: a homogenous, essentialist, monotonous, opaque, rigid fundamentalism that replaced the vivid, complex, historical, diverse, expressive human history.