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...
Emily Skaja grew up next to a cemetery in northern Illinois. Along with Julie Henson, she is the Poetry Editor of Sycamore Review. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Indiana Review, PANK, The Pinch, Pleiades, and Southern Indiana...
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), which is the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2013 and is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Indiana...
In Praise of Usefulness Angela Patten 2014 Wind Ridge Books 73 pages Review by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI In Praise of Usefulness, Angela Patten’s third collection of poetry, meditates on the boundaries between childhood and adulthood and Ireland and America. The recurring...
If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Matthea Harvey 2014 Graywolf Press 147 pages Review by BETHANY STARTIN “When I say we I mean/me in a wide wide dress,” Matthea Harvey writes in “On Intimacy,” her words illustrated by a silhouette of a woman clothed in a...