by anniebellequattlebaum | Feb 25, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Happy Release Day to Alexis Ivy for her release of “Taking the Homeless Census.” Famed critic Barrett Warner says Ivy’s “touch of what others have touched–their needles, their drink, their piss– turns her hands into doorways that...
by adamin | Feb 13, 2020 | FSR
adamin I want to tell you about the field mice and the tiny burrows they make in the dry grass, and how quick they have to be to escape the cats, and how clever the fox is at catching them. How today we passed a crisis of heat and are blessed with a breeze from the...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Dec 6, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
by Derek Berry In her debut short story collection Orders of Protection, Jenn Hollmeyer cartographs an ecology of escape in the state of Illinois—from fraught divorces, from crumbling marriages, from disappointing careers, from the past. At times messy or acute, these...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Nov 28, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
It is Thanksgiving more than a yearafter your wedding, for which I had triedto write an epithalamion and failed.I walk the fields of your father-in-law’s farm,among leftover shreds of cottonmixed with busted stalks. The peanuts,which the bears ravaged, are sold,but...
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 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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