The Art of the Book Review: Barrett Warner

by | Apr 1, 2018 | Bubbler

Barrett Warner is a writer I had the great pleasure to read with (at the Last Sunday, Last Rites series) when I traveled through Baltimore in late April. I loved what he and poet Jessica Dotson did to tweak the usual line-up of readers. Simply by reading their poems...
Love Story

Love Story

by | Mar 21, 2018 | Bubbler, Features

Love Story He orders a second drink. I argue with him until he promises he’ll sip it slow. At the bar I say, Let’s get some food in our stomachs. And when the bartender is busy he goes off—Hey scumbag, do your job. The show is starting. The lights go dark in the small...
Ornaments

Ornaments

by | Mar 12, 2018 | Bubbler

David Daniel’s Ornaments was just released from the Pitt Poetry Series and we asked him to make a Spotify playlist. David well knows a slide from a stride. For ten years he created and produced WAMFEST: The Words and Music Festival, bringing together poets...
Strangers

Strangers

by | Mar 7, 2018 | Bubbler, Video

When I read a poem or story, hundreds of images and sounds flurry in my brain. Most of them are not intended by the author. She only wanted to write a poem. She only wanted to make a story. Her poem. Her story. The way Julianna Spallholz uses plot and control of the...
Stabbing Back at Rejection

Stabbing Back at Rejection

by | Mar 5, 2018 | Bubbler

By Anniebelle Quattlebaum Rejection is a dish best served yesterday, with espresso, and behind an acceptance letter. Tales of once-rejected authors litter the web. Before her image graced the cover of our most recent issue, Anais Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love was...