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
by Free State Review | Sep 17, 2019 | Bubbler
Alexa Poteet is a poet whose only studio is the world, and perhaps enough outer space to encompass the moon and one or two illustrious planets. Her work in progress is a life in progress, small studies of a larger unfinished piece. Poteet’s debut...
by Free State Review | Jul 21, 2019 | Bubbler
by Derek Berry Texas Crude, the debut short story collection by Thomas Kearnes, offers an intimate portrait of gay lives in East Texas. In equal measures erotic, heartbreaking, and rousing, the collection invites us into his characters’ inner lives, whether they be...
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