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...
43.2 Sneak Peek: CONFLICT RESOLUTION by Alethea Tusher
Alethea Tusher recently earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame. She has work published in Hardly Doughnuts, Toad, and PRØOF. Right-click and "open image in new tab" for a larger version. To read Alethea Tusher's work...
43.1 Sneak Peek: TRANS MEMOIR 8 by Sara June Woods
Check out this sneak peek of 43.1