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 ...
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...
Auto-Da-Fé: Confession and Camouflage by M.J. Gette
"This author has confected a compelling new uncanny life form under the sign of the slime mold. With phrases of lyric flight, garlands of theory, camouflaged confession, diagrams and screenshots, this piece is something like an essay, something like a collage,...
2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah María Medina’s “From a Poet to her Rumbero”
At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever.
From the Archives: Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 by Aristilde Kirby
Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 Aristilde Kirby from BWR 44.1 Aristilde Justine Kirby (27 | 4/11/1991) is a poet, Louise Montalescot's daughter, amateur chansonnier, recovering overthinker, picaresque girl & paper champion. She has...
44.2 Sneak Peek: THE NIGHTGOWN by Taisia Kitaiskaia
Rabbits have bitten holes in my nightgown,
Which have only made her more sensuous.
44.2 Sneak Peek: MARY by Carlina Duan
Carlina Duan hails from Michigan, and is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and Narrative Magazine, among others. She is a current MFA...
44.1 Feature: sam sax Reads S A T Y R I A S I S
sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the NEA,...
44.1 Sneak Peek: ROYAL I by Paige Lewis
Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere. Right-click and...
from A HUNDRED THOUSAND HOURS by Gro Dahle, translated by Rebecca Wadlinger
I find translation fascinating because of the way it allows writers engage with other writers' work and, by extension, opens up so much room for the slippage and transformation of meaning for readers as well. There's all these undercurrents and endless...