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Review: IF THE TABLOIDS ARE TRUE WHAT ARE YOU? by Matthea Harvey

by Black Warrior Review | Nov 17, 2014 | Archive, Reviews

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...

41.1 Feature: An Interview with Simeon Berry

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 22, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

Simeon Berry lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he serves on the Board of Directors for Salamander. He has been an associate editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National...

41.1 Feature: An Interview with Joe Milazzo

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 1, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

Joe Milazzo is the author of the chapbook The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas and Little Red Leaves Textile Series) and the novel Crepuscule W / Nellie (Jaded Ibis Productions). He co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] and is also the...

Review: I DON’T KNOW DO YOU by Roberto Montes

by Black Warrior Review | May 26, 2014 | Archive, Reviews

I Don’t Know Do You Roberto Montes 2014 Ampersand Books 102 pages Review by CHRIS EMSLIE What Montes achieves in his debut collection of poems is the reverse of objectification. Rather than reducing the body of the beloved to a thing, a mere object of desire,...

National Poetry Month: I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE ALMOST AND THE ONCE by Cindy Beebe

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 30, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

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...