by anniebellequattlebaum | Feb 3, 2021 | Bubbler, FSR
Sokcho, South Korea Five and a half hours in the back of a rented vanwith the people you love most now least in thisworld will make you embrace almost any city,even one that lies just north of the 38th parallel,thirty miles from North Korea. Looking outat those... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jan 27, 2021 | Bubbler, FSR
Sophia’s Away at Ballet Intensive This morning the mirror over her dresser shows only leafshadows and dappled light through curtains covered withgrey and blue birds. She’s been away for a month, and herroom is untouched. I hesitate in the doorway, knowing thatmy... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 20, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER, by Eric Tran (2020 Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 62 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-938769-51-1) Reviewed by Derek Berry Eric Tran’s debut poetry collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Rising... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 9, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of... by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 8, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of... 
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...
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