FEATURE
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.
45.2 Feature: La Piedra de los Doce Ángulos by David Villaverde
"David Joez Villaverde’s “La Piedra de los Doce Ángulos” explores the self as record, confession, revelation, and gospel, and refuses the ellipsis and compression expected of contemporary Western poetry by insisting on density and presence, entering a trancelike...
45.2 Feature: “Planetary Bodies” by Naima Yael Tokunow
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 Click here to read Planetary Bodies as a PDF. Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator,...
45.2 Sneak Peek: h/ow s/imple a v/irus by Aurielle Marie
h/ow s/imple a v/irus h/ow s/imple a v/irus Aurielle Marie from 45.2 Read by the author. For a PDF of Aurielle's poem, click here. you ...
45.2 feature: Craft Essay by Sophie Paquette
Sophie Paquette is from Bloomington, Indiana. Her work has appeared in The Rupture, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She is a freshman at Columbia College in New York. Resisting Palatability: on “Rot” I love gross...
From the archives: Last Days, Part 1 by Tamiko Beyer from BWR 45.1
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...
45.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jake Syersak
Jake Syersak received his MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. He is the author of the full-length Yield Architecture (Burnside Review Books, 2018) and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared...
From the Archives: Edmondson & Athol by Chekwube Danladi
Edmondson & Athol Chekwube Danladi from BWR 44.1 The secret divulged like this: gyrating under the panoptic apparatus, visage blue as Uranus. This hood’s hidden axis as much tipped. These blue hands grabbing hold whatever lie...