by anniebellequattlebaum | May 12, 2020 | Bubbler
Joan Miro was famous for once saying he’d spent 80 years trying to learn how to paint like a child—uninhibited, free of self-conscious thinking, without any sense of pose. And it is in that same spirit that we lean into the idea / mood of “Totally Limited...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 2, 2020 | Bubbler
Happy Book Birthday to Free State poet S. B. Merrow. Her Everyone a Bell was just published by Kelsay Books. The notorious critic Barrett Warner has written—It’s a fine collection with at least a dozen poems anyone on the planet would have wished to write. There was...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 22, 2020 | Bubbler
Our transitions editor Sorrah Edwards-Thro has new writing up at Entropy Magazine: With corona at our door if not already among us, my housemates and I take a frantic and far from complete tally of who social distancing doesn’t mean staying away from. Typically, over...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 2, 2020 | Bubbler
Our heartfelt congratulations to poet Lara Egger, who just received the Juniper Prize for a first book of poetry! Several of her poems have appeared in our issues. Check out the press release here: https://www.umass.edu/umpress/2020juniperwinners
by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 1, 2020 | Bubbler
For your birthday, an oyster poem. -Michael Ratcliffe Our shells clacked on the plates.My tongue was a filling estuary,My palate hung with starlight:As I tasted the salty PleiadesOrion dipped his foot into the water. Alive and violated,They lay on their bed of...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Mar 18, 2020 | Bubbler
“At night I dream about empty parking lots:/ flat and void of memory./ It’s been two years & I still live/ in a temporary house.” Meg Eden’s poetry collection Drowning in a Floating World (Press 53) is concerned with disaster, survival, & what comes in...
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Issue 12
$10.61