by Free State Review | Feb 10, 2021 | Bubbler, FSR
when the job you worked your ass off for is givento an older white man with a soul patch, you askyour husband to fuck you with the lights on— and he obliges, because he loves you and also loves fucking you// he’s good at it, but even still, you have to try not to...
by Free State Review | Jan 18, 2021 | Bubbler
—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...
by Free State Review | Jul 7, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
“There’s no running water.” He points. At the water, as if to say, there it is. “It’s trickling out.” “Just press harder.” “I did. It’s not coming out. Not where it’s useable.” “We don’t have sinks here.” “Aren’t...
by Free State Review | Jun 21, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
A book review by Derek Berry To read Jason Gordon’s debut poetry collection “many appetites” feels similar to having a conversation with a close friend after he has consumed five grams of psychedelic mushrooms. When we enter through the door of a fresh poem, we find...
by Free State Review | Oct 15, 2019 | Bubbler
Each poem or story is searching for freedom, but does the reader care if it can’t find the door to the emerald highway? Here are a few doors. https://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/2019/10/six-questions-for-Free-State-Review.html
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