INTERVIEWS
2017 Poetry Contest Runner-up: Noah Baldino
The beauty of this poem is how it resists the urge to pull punches, placing its readers in a position beyond that of witness: if this is what I must endure, you must help me endure it. Help me gather the teeth, confettied against the glinting pipes. Help me see the dead flies / mottled / a swarm of distant, dark balloons. Do not be mistaken – this is no sad resignation but, instead, the blood-holy howl of a body refusing to be shaped by its enemies.
An Interview with Sarah María Medina – 2017 BWR Poetry Contest Winner
I use white space to play with the rhythm and beat of an open rather than set structure. There’s another song I love which switches from Rumba to Bembé and I like thinking about what that would look like on the page. I like to use Spanish to subvert English, to reclaim tongue, but Spanish is also a colonizer language, so I like to find Taíno and Yorùbá words too.
2018 Contest: Interview with Flash Judge Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng’s work includes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text forms. Her debut book, HOUSE A (2016), was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, and her forthcoming hybrid collection, MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (May 2018), was...
An Interview with Tess Allard, 2017 Fiction Contest Winner
Tess Allard is a writer, photographer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh, PA, by way of Connecticut and New Mexico. She holds a BA in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, and...
2018 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg is the author of the novel Find Me, a Time Out New York and NPR “Best Book of 2015,” and two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, both finalists for the Frank...
2018 Contest: Interview with Nonfiction Judge Kate Zambreno
But the writing that I am most excited by does resist conventions, crosses boundaries, is formally restless.
44.2 Feature: An Interview with John Stintzi
John Stintzi is a non-binary writer who grew up on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. John is a recipient of a Research and Create grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and their work can be found in Los Angeles Review of Books, Humber...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Fiction Editor, Chase Burke
I like weird stuff
Meet the Editors: An interview with the Poetry Editor, J. Taylor Boyd
I would prefer BWR to be an underwater space: weightless, quiet, vibrant, borderless, and, most importantly, hospitable to merfolk and monsters.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Managing Editor, Wendy Dinwiddie
The bourbon you’ve got, obviously.