Why Does This Not Seem Beautiful?

Why Does This Not Seem Beautiful?

by | Nov 20, 2022 | Bubbler

Because it aches, you say, and the ache is weighty,weighed down, wings stuck in mud. And not just any mud, but mud of late winter, when the film of ice stillfastens and fetters – this something that doesn’t seem beautiful. But gorgeous, yes? That sunlit...
Editor’s Swing: Free State Review 15

Editor’s Swing: Free State Review 15

by | Nov 6, 2022 | Bubbler, FSR

In Youngstown, Ohio, and Austin, Texas, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Wachapreague, VA, and Southwest Harbor, Maine—most places I’ve learned the zip codes to this year— people ask me, “What is totally limited omniscience?” And sure, I could say, an aught band from...
Victoria Corchada Menendez

Victoria Corchada Menendez

by | Jul 24, 2022 | Bubbler

Joan Miro was well known for saying he’d spent 90 years trying to paint like a child. At one of our recent launches at the Tap Room in Aiken featuring Julia Wendell and Evelyn Berry, Victoria Corchada Menendez, age 6, made the decision to become a poet and to...
Burn by Chloe Chun Seim

Burn by Chloe Chun Seim

by | Jun 26, 2022 | Bubbler

Saturday morning. Hours before you’re due for your sister’s college volleyball game, before either you or your mother shuffle out of bed and greet the mildew and cigarette smoke layering your apartment. The doorbell comes to you first as a wren’s warble in your dream...