BOOK REVIEW Trans Studies Crystal Odelle Reviewed by Alayna Powell, BWR Poetry Editor Buy a Copy Trans Studies Crystal Odelle 2025 Gold Line Press 78 pages Crystal Odelle’s Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) is a collection of self-fragments; a...
Interview with Sophia Terazawa Author of de Clérambault, 2024 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up In a new conversation, Black Warrior Review’s Editor-in-Chief, Chinaecherem Obor speaks with Sophia Terazawa about non-linear time, past lives and past loves, rituals,...
Special Online Feature de Clérambault Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest “de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this...
Reva Speaks a New Dialect by Shastri Akella BWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-up Reva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
YAMABIKO 山彦 For two months, my brother lived with the yamabiko. When initial search-and-rescue efforts turned up empty-handed, the yamabiko understood that my brother, buried, was going to be a guest on his mountain until the weather conditions changed. In his...