by anniebellequattlebaum | Nov 5, 2019 | Bubbler
We’re excited to announce that Sorrah Edwards-Thro will be our new Transitions Editor. Sorrah Edwards-Thro is a queer, trans masc, and autistic writer. He lives in a Maryland community of twelve people and holds jobs as a...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Nov 1, 2019 | Bubbler
By Edward Scissorhands “Are dolls scary because they’re lifelike or because they’re so clearly not?” –Todd Dillard Halloween is a good time to talk about first-person. Is it real, is it a mask, or is it something darker? One problem...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 31, 2019 | Bubbler
The trouble with poets is that we don’t have any urban myths. No story of the mad sonneteer with hooks for hands sneaking around Lovers Lane. No legend of the cannibal food poet who ate his extended metaphor garnished with his victim’s liver comfit. Try doing a survey...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 24, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
The Abenaki / Huron poet Suzanne S. Rancourt sent us a stack of poems a few weeks ago, and in my reply–we accepted one–I mentioned that even Plath at her darkest in Ariel included poems of joy. For all these reasons I was eager to read Jessica...
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 Barrett Warner | Oct 8, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
I’d cross any river if a poem or a story were on the other side, and that’s one reason I lobbied to become an editor for Free State Review in 2011, and eventually the book acquisitions editor for its publisher, Galileo Press. Being an editor lets me walk...
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