by Free State Review | Sep 15, 2025 | Bubbler, FSR
This is all about sticks falling from trees,but not until they’ve hung for a while.Look up there where the wind freesdead limbs from long denials.They fall fast when they’ve hung a while.You could see them as shattered gemsbroken by gravity from long denials,plunging... 
by Free State Review | Sep 1, 2025 | FSR
I want you to know Moby-Dick is now considered a classic. I’ve read it twenty-six times, fell in love with Queequeg but fantasize... 
by Free State Review | Jul 21, 2025 | FSR
(for Jean Marie) ….it doesn’t matter if you traveled to Ireland just to smoke pot with some locals or that you can do a wicked lizard imitation on demand, that you were the unrealized love of that director who everyone else feared or that you had more pickles in your... 
by Darah Schillinger | Sep 1, 2024 | Bubbler, Features, FSR, Spotlight
Evelyn Berry’s work in Grief Slut, her debut, edgily titled collection of poems, has an excellent mouth feel. People pay lip service to the idea that poetry should be read aloud. From its first poem, “praise song in lieu of obituary,” Grief... 
by Darah Schillinger | Aug 12, 2024 | Bubbler, Features, FSR, Spotlight
The Promised Land (2023)Director: Nikolaj ArcelWriter: Nikolaj Arcel and Anders Thomas JensenStarring: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg In a brooding moment preceding The Promised Land’s third act, a minister kills a mosquito with a bible. Anton Eklund... 
by Darah Schillinger | Jul 7, 2024 | Bubbler, FSR
On the day my father had his open heart surgery, they cracked him apart like a wishbone, pried him open like a lobster tail. A gloved surgeon on either side digging in and pulling away with heft, my father a lush pomegranate halved. His very sweetness oozing onto the...
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