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45.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Krys Malcolm Belc
On "First Seen in Print in 1987, According to Merriam Webster" Krys Malcolm Belc My original New York City Certificate of Birth, issued in July 1987, is a beautiful document. I love the weathered pink paper, the texture, the seal and signatures. I stare at...
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was Emma Bolden In the first frenzied firestorm of pro-Trump extremism, my liberal views made me a lightning rod in my workplace, and I got hit. I lost everything: the life and career I’d built so...
Sneak Peek: Hypatia on St. Katherine by Kelly Krumrie
HYPATIA ON ST. KATHERINE Kelly Krumrie from BWR 45.1 Tap here for a Phone Friendly Version To read Kelly Krumrie's work and more, pick up a copy of 45.1 or order a subscription from our online store. Kelly Krumrie is a PhD student in Creative Writing at the...
45.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Kelly Krumrie
To be a martyr you must have a body. These two women, points of data, map to one body. Polar narratives, satellite fact.
45.1 Feature: An Interview with Tyrese Coleman
I wanted the reader to witness Lucy, participate in what happens to her. It was important to me that this piece not be passive but something that readers interact with almost physically. I am hoping for squirming.
Sneak Peek: Missing File #7: The Ortolan Bunting by Alison Powell
Missing File #7: The Ortolan Bunting Alison Powell from BWR 45.1 In 1996 former French President Francois Mitterand invited thirty guests to his last supper. One was delighted to attend and offer condolences, admittedly a delicate balancing act. President...
A Conversation with David Naimon
“I gravitate more and more anyways to writers who foreground language vs. ones who try to cast a spell where the reader disappears into the story so much that the language seems to disappear. “
45.1 Sneak Peek: “The Whole Girl Detective Thing” by Cathy Ulrich
The Whole Girl Detective Thing Cathy Ulrich from BWR 45.1 On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, the girl detective is kidnapped, thrown into the trunk of a long car. The girl detective bucks her hips, scrabbles with her fingertips at...
A Review of THE GROTESQUE CHILD by Kim Parko
THE GROTESQUE CHILD KIM PARKO 2016 Tarpaulin Sky 250 pages Review by RBrown “The new world was brought down by your quakes and leveled by your wind and sunk by your flood. Some of your children managed to survive and they floated...
“It was the kind of fever in which want burns”: A Review of Rebecca Aronson’s GHOST CHILD OF THE ATALANTA BLOOM
Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom Rebecca Aronson 2017 Orison Books 80 pages Review by REILLY COX Story teaches us that, when it comes to our demise, we have options. Accounts differ. Homer is killed by either a turtle...