by Free State Review | Jul 7, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
“There’s no running water.” He points. At the water, as if to say, there it is. “It’s trickling out.” “Just press harder.” “I did. It’s not coming out. Not where it’s useable.” “We don’t have sinks here.” “Aren’t...
by Free State Review | Jun 21, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
A book review by Derek Berry To read Jason Gordon’s debut poetry collection “many appetites” feels similar to having a conversation with a close friend after he has consumed five grams of psychedelic mushrooms. When we enter through the door of a fresh poem, we find...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 28, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Reviewed by Matt Hohner Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Spuyten Duyvil, 2020, 142 pages, $18.00, ISBN 978-1-949966-65-7. Reviewed by Matt Hohner Sanctuary, Anne Waldman’s exquisite new collection of images and new writing, as well as writing lifted...
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...
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