Free State Review

Evelyn Berry Reviews “ORCHID ALPHA” by Kimberly Ann Southwick

by Free State Review | Nov 27, 2023 | Bubbler

ORCHID ALPHA, by Kimberly Ann Southwick (2023, Trembling Pillow Press, New Orleans, LA, 101 pages, $16.99, 978-1-7374768-1-8) Reviewed by Evelyn Berry Orchid Alpha Dares Us to Know Kimberly Ann Southwick...

Laura Villareal Reviews Wendy Guerra’s “Delicates,” translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

by Free State Review | Nov 2, 2023 | Bubbler

72 pages | ISBN-13‏: ‎978-1803091662 | Seagull Books | Publication Date: June 2023 Many idioms are untranslatable from language to language. “Don’t air our dirty laundry” or “La ropa sucia se lava en casa” travels across many boundaries. The common idiom is also...

Moments of Disruption and Recognition: A Review of Mary Lynn Reed’s Phantom Advances

by Free State Review | Apr 23, 2023 | Bubbler

Review By Alyssa Greene, as featured in Lambda Literary In the title story of Phantom Advances, Mary Lynn Reed’s debut short story collection, the teenage narrator looks at her mother through the viewfinder of a manual camera as her mother drives. They’ve just...

LSD & Zen by Rue Matthiessen

by Free State Review | Mar 16, 2023 | Bubbler, FSR

In 2010, I went with my father to a memorial service at St. Annes, in Bridgehampton. I noticed how confidently he sang the hymns, knowing every cadence, every word. For him they were second nature. I was touched by the quaintness of this. Before, I had only seen him...

Edward Field: Getting Used to It

by Free State Review | Jun 24, 2021 | Bubbler

my new face, for one. But what a relief not to have to bethe pretty one any more,begging for love,and to have this ravaged mug,the man of experience, the worldlyno-shit look, and with it,even a pot belly.though I’ll admit that with a pot bellyit’s better...