by Katie DeLay | Aug 27, 2023 | Archive, Feature
Annual Report; or, The Achievements of the Junior Colleague by Corey Van Landingham BWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Winner I restored the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, both works at great expense without inscribing my own name on either. [….] I am pontifex maximus,...
by Katie DeLay | Aug 14, 2023 | Interviews
2023 Contest: Interview with Poetry Judge Gary Soto Gary Soto, born and raised in Fresno, California, is the author of thirteen poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Award and the National...
by Katie DeLay | Jul 24, 2023 | Interviews
2023 Contest: Interview with Nonfiction Judge Jesse McCarthy Jesse McCarthy is Assistant Professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of the essay collection, Who Will Pay Reparations on...
by Katie DeLay | Jul 24, 2023 | Interviews
2023 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Michael Martone Michael Martone’s newest books are Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana (2022) and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne (2020). He has authored or edited over two dozen...
by Katie DeLay | Jun 27, 2023 | Archive, Feature
from River of Love by Kami Enzie BWR 49.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up Like a morgue of oranges inside the lower crisper laid. Loose rinds bruised, and if not torn, still their battered segments will again never repaired be, not really. Waxy bodies deep welled yet near...