Literary Manifesto

Literary Manifesto

by | Jan 17, 2020 | Bubbler

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...
Amy Watkins

Amy Watkins

by | Jan 7, 2020 | Bubbler

From our forthcoming issue. Running   It was spring and the garden was just green. On the porch, purple petunias, moss roses, and you, baby sister, between blooming and crying. Our mother was already running. I lifted you to my skinny hip and ran as far as I could...
Meeting Jennifer Porter

Meeting Jennifer Porter

by | Dec 13, 2019 | Bubbler

Our new fiction person collects American pottery, which she finds at estate sales for a quarter or two. Her secret pleasure is true crime, but the homicide detective enthusiast still has an ear cocked for the Detroit rock and roll she was raised on. Jennifer Porter...
Escaping Every Danger Except the Past

Escaping Every Danger Except the Past

by | Dec 6, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR

by Derek Berry In her debut short story collection Orders of Protection, Jenn Hollmeyer cartographs an ecology of escape in the state of Illinois—from fraught divorces, from crumbling marriages, from disappointing careers, from the past. At times messy or acute, these...
The Look

The Look

by | Nov 28, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR

It is Thanksgiving more than a yearafter your wedding, for which I had triedto write an epithalamion and failed.I walk the fields of your father-in-law’s farm,among leftover shreds of cottonmixed with busted stalks. The peanuts,which the bears ravaged, are sold,but...