by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Mar 26, 2014 | Spotlight
The Babe Ruth Museum on Emory Street where the Sultan of Swat was born is also the ground zero of Barbara DeCesare’s multi-syllabic night life. “I’ve crashed—on couches—on nearby Paca, Eutaw, Lemmon Streets. Big Bam’s ghost—he knows me. Bummed a smoke off me, once.”... by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Mar 22, 2014 | events
We’re kicking off Spring with a celebration of our third issue. We’re tickled to bring you the best of the best in local art, local music & of course, great local writing! Readings by FSR contributors: C. L. Bledsoe Barbara DeCesare Elizabeth Hazen Jim... by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Mar 10, 2014 | Features
On www.freestatereview.com, a preview of the Winter/Spring 2014 issue with a poem by Edward Field. Don’t have a copy yet? Find it on our website or in select bookstores. by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Feb 27, 2014 | Spotlight
It’s hard for Alan Britt’s poetry to sneak up on you. It’s like a diesel tractor, full of snorts and groans and clanging parts. A few years ago we heard him all the way in Dallas—a poem about Cuba in Ilya’s Honey. Britt came out of the old Hopkins Writing Seminars in... by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Feb 10, 2014 | Spotlight
Love at first sight happens to most of us once in a life. It’s happened to Nikia Leopold twenty times. Architecture and painting—shape and color—inform her lines. In the space between the two, fantastic desire climbs hollowed out hand and toe holds. It climbs to...