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...
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Angela Pelster
I needed to turn the words of the oppressors against them, to somehow find within the original language an act of resistance, a betrayal of the idea of superiority, and to pull out the seed of justice buried so deeply within the injustice.
44.1 Feature: An Interview with Leslie Sainz
“Integer,” is ultimately a narrative concerned with the difficulties of familial, and institutional forgiveness.
Review: OF THIS NEW WORLD by Allegra Hyde
The collection contains thirteen stories, beginning with the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and ending with the human colonization of Mars.
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by L. Vella
This series of poems began with the idea of a twin Earth lost on the other side of the sun, eclipsed, antipodal.
Review: LIKE A BEAST by Carly Joy Miller
Like a Beast Carly Joy Miller Winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Award Anhinga Press 28 pages Review by M.K. FOSTER Though it ‘be but little, it is fierce’— Carly Joy Miller’s debut, prize-winning chapbook makes no...
44.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Jill Schepmann
When I think about how to write about bodies, it seems negligent to only speak of one or to do so speaking alone. I felt that desire to see and reach others when I wrote “What Grows Inside,” and tried to make space for those other voices and experiences.