Upcoming Issue
Devon Balwit, Laurie Blauner, S.T. Brant, Scott Brennan, Floyd Collins, Susan Eyre Coppock, Heather Nelson, Ilari Pass, Matthew Raymond, Alan Reese, Robert Sachs, Gion Davis, Heather Dearmon, Dan Fliegel, Pamela Gullard, Max Heinegg, Stephen Hundley, Jan LaPerle, Xioaly Li, Lisa Low, Becka McKay, Michael Salcman, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Tim Suermondt, Leona Sevick, Edgar Gabriel Silex, Elle Cee Wallace, Richard Weaver, Guinnote Wise, Brenna Womer
Cover art by Sandro Pappas
THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone who recently sent us a book or chapbook during our Spring open reading spell. We will be falling in love with your manuscripts over the next several months. It is such glorious anguish to read you and hear your music yet still knowing that we can only publish the books that sing to we all.
If We Must Die Let It Come After a Long Evening of Laughter
—after Hanif Abdurraqib The last night I drove him home, I took a wrong turn, crisscrossing Baltimore, wondering if he noticed how many times we’d passed the arboretum.His eyes were as bright as ever, and his chin was peppered with the wiry excuse of a...
Free State Review is published in print every 8 months.
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