It Takes a Community

It Takes a Community

by | Apr 29, 2014 | Features

New for 2014: Clarity. We’ve been hearing some reports about editors looking for simple, smart conversational styles in poetry. Plain spoken, but without dumbing it down. Here’s some music those editors might snap. Sure, it’s not influenced by punk,...

Tell it to the Birds

by | Mar 22, 2014 | events

We’re kicking off Spring with a celebration of our third issue. We’re tickled to bring you the best of the best in local art, local music & of course, great local writing! Readings by FSR contributors: C. L. Bledsoe Barbara DeCesare Elizabeth Hazen Jim...

Nikia, On the Rocks

by | Feb 10, 2014 | Spotlight

Love at first sight happens to most of us once in a life. It’s happened to Nikia Leopold twenty times. Architecture and painting—shape and color—inform her lines. In the space between the two, fantastic desire climbs hollowed out hand and toe holds. It climbs to...
Against Theme

Against Theme

by | Jan 6, 2014 | from the editors, Spotlight

If all we do is take a few words from each author then we’ve made the world a better place. From short story writer Shannon Cain I took arithmetic. I remember feeling appalled as she critiqued a colleague’s lecture about the difference between fiction and nonfiction....