“tentatively eking their way towards hope”: An Interview with Kathryne David Gargano, Author of Pentimenti
Kathryne David Gargano (she/they) is a queer, Jewish writer interested in myth, retellings, art, and religion. They received their PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where they served as the Managing Editor of Cream...
50.2 Feature: “Custodians” by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles
50.2 Feature: "Custodians" by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of BROTHER SALVAGE and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD. This prizewinning...
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Diana Clarke
I was not looking for Freud. Freud did not need any finding. But Sándor did need finding.
46.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jessica Lanay
I was not looking for Freud. Freud did not need any finding. But Sándor did need finding.
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
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...
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,...