Their Names | Kyoko Uchida
[docxpresso file=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Names_Uchida_BKR_040522.odt”] Kyoko Uchida’s poetry, prose, and translations have been published in journals including Boston...
View ArticleACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff) | India Lena González
India Lena González is a poet and educator. She received her BA from Columbia University, where she graduated with honors, and her MFA from NYU. A two-time National Poetry Series finalist and 2021 BOA...
View ArticleStill Life with Bottle | Anne Colwell
For you, James. In graduate school, we’d drink the Spanish Rioja, then you’d put a red candle in the empty bottle as we drank the next. Hunched over the kitchen table in the basement apartment, we...
View Articlemuse | Rachel James with Valerie Hsiung and Sarah Passino
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Abscission | Jill McCabe Johnson
“Flower Whispering” by Marianne Dalton I was thinking about sneaking off when the twins went down for their nap. No one would know. They had each other. Who did I have? The husband was at work and...
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of course | Louise Akers
[docxpresso file=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/of-course_Akers_bkreview.odt”] “Untitled” (ink and watercolor) by Richard Hanus Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY....
View ArticleA Scandal in Peril | Cedar Sigo
[docxpresso file=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sigo_BKR.odt”] Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Tribe. He studied writing and poetics at Naropa University. His...
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Missoula Stop-gap | Chris Potter
Bear Dance, 1990. Christine Musgrave (Chris Potter), Osage (b. 1959)oil pastel, ink, acrylic, and collage, 22 ½ x 47 ½ inchesGreat Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Great Plains Art...
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A Visitor Comes to Rondo | Debra Stone
In the backyard of 841 Rondo Avenue, the barbecue cloud floated above them, wrapped around the house like Grandma Essie’s arms. As usual, Grandpa Joe’s stubby brown cigar, clamped tight between his...
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An interview | Robert Jones Jr. on Black Love, Community, and Resistance in...
Photo of Robert Jones Jr. by Alberto Vargas, RainRiver. Robert Jones, Jr. is the author of The New York Times Bestselling novel, The Prophets, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for...
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