By COLLEEN HOLLISTER BWR Fiction Editor, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 The museum hangs with birds. The back rooms swim with airplanes. In the night, you will want to see an explosion. In the night, you will be walking in the gardens—the gardens will be dark with...
By CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS BWR Editor, 1997-1999 One day Veronica told me she wanted to visit her boyfriend Geoffrey who was at that time incarcerated in Duluth. I had never met Geoffrey, who had, long before I met her, given Veronica a fur coat. I wasn’t looking...
By JOHN PURSLEY III BWR Genre Editor, Poetry, Spring 2003 If this is the elegy for the fallen St. Christopher; if this is the face For which a thousand ships will be launched; if this is that launch And the face of that launch bears a similarity to Mary...
Black Warrior Review is excited to celebrate its 40th anniversary with our readers. Semiannually since 1974, the staff of BWR has produced issues of innovative poetry and prose. The journal has changed over time and has grown, ever in flux, ever an object of art and...