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Local Spotlight: An Interview with Ashley M. Jones

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 26, 2018 | Alabama, Feature, Interviews

Ashley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU), where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including the Academy of American Poets, Tupelo...

2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah María Medina’s “From a Poet to her Rumbero”

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 23, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print

At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet moves...

43.2 Feature: An Interview with Sara Jane Stoner

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 11, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Photo by Joey Crimmins Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Sara Jane Stoner is a writer, teacher, and PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center, who holds an MFA from Indiana University and a BA from Smith College, and is currently working on a...

2016 Contest: Poetry Runner-up HEAVEN MAKE ME A WARRIOR TO SLAY ALL THE BAD MAGIC by Lauren Eggert-Crowe

by Black Warrior Review | May 8, 2017 | Archive, Feature

Photo by Rachael Warecki. Lauren Eggert-Crowe is the author of four poetry chapbooks. Her work has also appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Horseless Review, DIAGRAM, Water-Stone Review, and Sixth Finch, among others. She serves on the leadership team for Women Who Submit,...

2016 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Kirsten Ihns

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 24, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Kirsten Ihns is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and will be a Ph.D. student in the English Literature program at UChicago in the fall. She is grateful to Felicity Nussbaum/her book The Autobiographical Subject, from which one of her...