2019 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Sophie He
"Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in 'Chinatownland.' The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In 'Chinatownland,' juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses our vision so that we might...
From the Archives: “The Coffin, the Ship” by Mel Kassel
At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire.
From the Archives: “The Empty” by Panpan Song
This much was true: nothing very bad happened. Nothing big.
46.2 Feature: “Socratic Wig” by Sara Kachelman
Socratic Wigby Sara Kachelmanfrom BWR 46.2I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true redhead. It was referring to my mother. She was the last true redhead, and now she was dead. We had...
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...
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,...
From the archives: Last Days, Part 1 by Tamiko Beyer from BWR 45.1
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...
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...
Shadow Memories from Desire: A Haunting by Molly Gaudry
Shadow Memories Molly Gaudry from BWR 41.1 Molly Gaudry is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of We Take Me Apart, which was...