This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “This sequence strikes me more and more each...
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “This poem by Curtis Rogers offers a strange...
I Wanted to Write About the Almost and the Once by Cindy Beebe upon a time my mother almost worked at the Park Avenue Funeral Home. Where she would’ve styled the hair of the newly deceased population there and even the brand new babies. Her duties would...
Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped by Kallie Falandays Touching you. If you never stopped changing: You’re still in your bedroom: blue lamp-light, still teenage-hurt, no alarm clock. How do you get up in the morning after being held down by so...
Jacket Copy for ‘A Yellow Pencil in Midair Kept Sketching’ by Adam Atkinson Things are either metaphors or not in these poems. “Three ghosts pin / the tail on the reader.” Ghost or literal ghost? Literate ghosts know these poems by...