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42.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jennifer S. Cheng

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 5, 2016 | Archive, Feature

Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Jennifer S. Cheng holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa and an MFA in poetry from San Francisco State University. A poet and essayist, she is the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press),...

Review: BOY WITH THORN by Rickey Laurentiis

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 6, 2016 | Archive, Reviews

Boy with Thorn Rickey Laurentiis 2015 University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series) 104 pages Review by DIAMOND FORDE When questioned about writer’s block in an interview for a 2016 Poets & Writers publication, Rickey Laurentiis responded, “My obsessions...

2015 Contest: Poetry Runner-up WOLFMOON by Mary-Alice Daniel

by Black Warrior Review | May 9, 2016 | Archive, Feature

Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Mary-Alice Daniel was born in Northern Nigeria and raised in the suburbs of London and Nashville, TN. After attending Yale University, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her adopted home is Los...

2015 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Mark Baumer

by Black Warrior Review | May 2, 2016 | Archive, Interviews

Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Mark Baumer lives in Providence, RI. He works in a library. His website is thebaumer.com. Interview by RYAN BOLLENBACH Black Warrior Review: In one of the stanzas of your winning poem ‘b careful’ you write: “It feels...

42.1 Feature: An Interview with Kat Finch

by Black Warrior Review | Nov 23, 2015 | Archive, Interviews

Kat Finch is a poet from the Pacific Northwest currently living in Ann Arbor where she studies at The University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sonora Review, Sugar House Review, Birdfeast, Sixth...