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Issue 87

Welcome to Issue 87!

Featuring:

“وطن Vatan,” Cover Art by Parissa Rad

Our 2023 Literary Award Winners Paige Lewis, Katie Quach, & Alexandra Dane

A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

New Writing by Ananda Naima González, Rose Maria Woodson, Remi Recchia, Karen Zheng, Gabriella Graceffo, Gholamreza Borusan (translated by Ali Asadollahi), Mckendy Fils-Aime, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Matthew Torralba Andrews, Jennessa Hester, & More!

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The paintings are gouache on paper, "I create elegant and detail-oriented motifs that celebrate the essence of Iranian art, culture, and tradition."

Features

Posted on May 3, 2024

BR’s Generative Poetry Hour with Taneum Bambrick (5/15): On Slime!

May 15th, 6:00pm-7:00pm PT We are so utterly excited to offer a free virtual generative writing session with poet Taneum Bambrick on the theme of slime! This session is free, virtual, and open to the public. Please register here! Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022), and Vantage (American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award 2019). …

New & Noteable

[Poetry, Resilient Pieholes]

Elegy for B, Who Dropped Dead After Dinner

BR Features | Linda Drach

Karen with short black hair and glasses in front of a brick wall, wearing a black and white striped shirt — [Poetry]

fucking bodies

Issue 87 | Karen Zheng

Poet Paige Lewis with short brown hair in a button down shirt and a white cat on their shoulders — [Features, Poetry]

The King Game

Issue 87 | Paige Lewis

Ananda Naima González wearing a brown shirt and orange scarf with some trees and water in the background — [Fiction]

Big Sister Pine

Issue 87 | Ananda Naima González

Rose Maria Woodson with grey hair and red lipstick smiling, wearing a blue shirt and sunglasses. — [Fiction]

I Worked For A Witch

Issue 87 | Rose Maria Woodson

[Features, Interviews]

Writing as Healing Ritual: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Issue 87 | Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe & Shaun Anthony McMichael

Writer Gabriella with long brown hair in a gray jacket in front of a water view — [Nonfiction]

Flensing

Issue 87 | Gabriella Graceffo

Remi with glasses and a beard, wearing a brown shirt, with a mug of coffee — [Poetry]

Against Burial

Issue 87 | Remi Recchia

Poet and translator Ali in a red and blue plaid shirt with a bird, smiling in front of a brick wall — [Poetry, Translation]

The Last Pack of Cigarettes in Exile

Issue 87 | Ali Asadollahi & Gholamreza Borusan

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