Current Issue
Devon Balwit, Emma Bolden, Don Brandis, Rick Campbell, Craig Cotter, Barbara Daniels, Amy Davis, Lauren Davis, Gary Duehr, Katherine Fallon, Gary Fincke, Lara Frankena, Mark Halpern, Elizabeth Carothers Herron, Mary Ann Honaker, Eli Karren, Philip Keinholz, George Longenecker, Demree McGhee, Joe Milazzo, John Moessner, Catherine Parnell, Arthur Plotnick, Suzanne S. Rancourt, Gerard Sarnat, Joel Savishinsky, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Charles Springer, Dante Di Stefano, Andrew Steketee, Margaret Stevens, Benjie Su, James Swansbrough, Amy Watkins, Eric Weil
Cover art by Lauren Silex
Literary Manifesto
If I think a poem or collection of poems is good and I want to be certain, I measure myself in the doorway. If I was 71 inches before, I am at least 71.001 after my encounter. Or, I’m wider. On the scale, it depends. Is it calibrated to record the gain or loss of a...
Free State Review is published in print every 8 months.
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