40th Anniversary Time Travel

40th Anniversary Feature: ROTHKO

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 7, 2013 | Archive, Feature

By LOUIE SKIPPER BWR Guest Poetry Editor, 1978 I flew into San Francisco on the Monday night before 9/11, the unthinkable becoming that point where beginning has no choice but going on. Planes grounded, I spent days in front of Rothko, his great canvas...

40th Anniversary Feature: WE’LL BE ALIVE FOR MARS

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 4, 2013 | Archive, Feature

By KATE LORENZ BWR Editor 2009-2010 Carla is on a dinner date, sitting across from a man her work friend has set her up with. This is an unusual scenario, since these days a person usually consults the internet to find a potential match. The internet algorithms...

40th Anniversary Feature: BLOOD

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 2, 2013 | Archive, Feature

By LUCAS SOUTHWORTH BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 2007-2008 In the weeks after the murder, the world is silent, motionless. Blood or the possibility of blood covers everything. It marks the white shirts hanging in the closet. It sinks into cracks on wood floors....

40th Anniversary Feature: SCARECROW, BLACK TULIP, THYME

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 30, 2013 | Archive, Feature

By ARIANA-SOPHIA KARTSONI BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 1997-1998 I have loved you as time searched for its wristwatch and several hours rushed over the hill or was it years while the loss cost us all. I meant to say the lost (or was it lust) cut us all. In any...

40th Anniversary Feature: Ligertown, VII. Case files: photograph of dog 5A in busted Toyota truck

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 27, 2013 | Archive, Feature

By SUSAN GOSLEE BWR Genre Editor, Poetry, 1999-2000 As if for a military portrait, in profile, a perfect right triangle of a sit, the wolf-hybrid stares toward the back of the truck’s camper. His long, full tail wraps his side and snaps into place at his...