Latest Writing
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INTERVIEW WITH francine j. harris
francine j. harris is the author of allegiance (2012), a finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and play dead (2016). She won the 2014 Boston Review Annual Poetry Prize…
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ON THE PHOTOGRAPH: AN INTERVIEW with Rachel Eliza Griffiths
from FWR Poetry Editor Nathan McClain: While at Cave Canem, I had the opportunity to chat with, and interview, poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the functionality and nature of photography and, more specifically, how aspects of the gaze and engagement contribute to a photo’s overall work. Her responses were far too wonderful and…
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Between the Lines:An Interview with Benjamin Miller
In this installment of “Between the Lines,” Dustin Pearson talks with Benjamin Miller about journeys through the desert, words as objects, and poetic self-interrogation.
POETRY
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TWO POEMS by Lucas Jorgensen
The Bureau of Consumption It’s the warmest day of the year so far in Brooklyn, where I confess I have done a bad thing quietly. The self-storage center, a jolly roger, glints with a novel kind of light. Last night, I had a green potato and didn’t die. Today, I had another. Off the R…
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(JANUARY) by Hanna Riisager trans. Kristina Andersson Bicher
I see the subject allthe time in front of me, see all thesesmall rituals.How it lies on the sofa and waitsfor me to come.The wind pushes moirés of ice and snowagainst the windowpane. An undulating, pearl gray surface –silk bark.My brain’s pale tissues unfold in the room in a billowing mass.I’m floating under the roof, looking…
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AROUND THE FIRE by Gloria Susana Esquivel trans. Joel Streicker
“En llamas será la canción”Briela Ojeda Everything was in flames. She felt a slight burning in her eyes and thought, for an instant, that the smoke choking the images on the TV had filtered into the room. She blinked, then turned her attention back to the newscast. Ten million hectares were burning uncontrollably. The world…
FICTION
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A SERIES OF WINDOWS by Alex McElroy
Heejoung took the job as a flight attendant because she wanted to see the world. It has been three years. She has seen the world. Its major cities have blurred together. Bangkok’s floating paper lanterns are superimposed onto Singapore’s harbor. She calls this place Hong Kong—no, she calls it HKG. Her life becomes simple. An…
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LADIES’ NIGHT AT THE GUN RANGE by Lara Markstein
The women waited for Olivia. Perched on their lawn chairs beneath the dogwood, which blossomed in leathery white bursts, Nel thought they looked more like they were waiting for their youth. Leanne had slathered on so much foundation she resembled an overripe tangerine, and Connie stank of French perfume. Nel regretted wearing new capris. The…
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Story About a Woman I Used to Know by Jozefina Cutura
Milena always reminded me of a backdrop to a bleak landscape, a woman unlikely to arouse much conscious consideration, though she hovered around like an uncertain but inescapable future punishment. She popped in and out of our lives at random, insignificant moments. There was, for instance, that typically drab October afternoon in Frankfurt.
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