Wanted!

by | 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...
Congrats, Susan Sonde!

Congrats, Susan Sonde!

by | Oct 1, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR

Her poetry collection, “The Arsonist,” is available on The Main Street Rag. “Arsonists are descended from dragons, and Susan Sonde is a poet with wings and teeth. She flies through centuries, blending a scriptural cadence with post-Modern shrieks. If...
Remembering Andy Goodman

Remembering Andy Goodman

by | Sep 3, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR

by Nancy Jainchill “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. A STEAMY SUMMER DAY IN AUGUST 1964, ON MY WAY TO visit family for a cookout in the suburbs, I fell...
Unfounded

Unfounded

by | Aug 19, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR

by David Dodd Lee We do try to speak out, voices in little bursts, the snapping of twiglets, maybe in a bustlefrom bedroom to office. As well, aghast, we sometimes overthink, estranged in themoment, estranged by the moment, a lack of imagination, of experience....

Issue 10 Editor’s Note

by | Jul 30, 2019 | FSR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR HAS ANYONE EVER GONE THROUGH A PERIOD OF DRAWING R E A L in a big loopy font with psychedelic hues? It’s fun to mess around with reality, bend it into balloon animals, drop it off a rooftop. To make it unreal with magic or disorder. To...