i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) Leia Penina Wilson 2014 Red Hen Press 112 pages Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH The universe of Leia Penina Wilson’s debut poetry collection i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and...
Heather Christle (pronounced “crystal”) is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009), and The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. A new collection, Heliopause,...
Emily Goodman Means is currently completing her MFA at Brown University. She is a co-editor of A Perimeter and her poems are forthcoming from Lana Turner Journal. Interview by BETHANY STARTIN Listen to Emily Goodman Means read section 1 of “Dulia” from...
Curtis Rogers received his MFA in poetry from NYU’s creative writing program. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, Coconut, cream city review, DIAGRAM, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Currently, he works and lives in Washington, D.C....
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...