45.2 Feature: “Planetary Bodies” by Naima Yael Tokunow
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 [pdf-embedder url="https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Planetary-Bodies-for-Online-2.pdf" title="Planetary Bodies for Online"] 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 [pdf-embedder url="http://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BWR-Shadow-Memories-1.pdf" title="BWR Shadow Memories"] Molly Gaudry is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of We Take Me Apart, which was...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Fiction Editor, Chase Burke
I like weird stuff
Review: IN THE WOODS OF MEMORY by Shun Medoruma
What does it mean to metaphorize memory as a forest when the trees have been bombed to splinter and ash?
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.
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Aristilde Kirby
The poem as translation, the star collapsing on itself, a collective locus for brightness in the infinitude of space has potential for renewal outside the bounds of copyright.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Nonfiction Editor, Elizabeth Theriot
It's a new year and new staff here at BWR. We (the editors) interviewed each other so that you (the world) could get a sense of us as editors/readers. We're pleased to meet you! Interview by CAT INGRID LEECHES Cat Ingrid Leeches: You entered UA...