Tag: Four Way Review
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DRAG NOTES – FROM A CONVERSATION WITH KINGA by Justin Engles
Davenport, Iowa. If you can believe it. Of all the dive bars in all the world, that’s where I saw my first drag show. I was 19. And there was this queen there —Ginger Snaps. She was a pointer-sister. She really served up the fantasy. I said to myself, that looks like a lot of…
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PRAYER TO ST. MARTHA by Leah Silvieus
Late August the galley blooms fruit flies, smoke-winged & garnet-eyed, circling the soft caves of over-sweet summer fruit: pear & blueberry, clingstone peach. Each night I pray resurrection but am deceived. Faith is not feast but desire, not beauty of the table but what drags us starving there – what was buried…
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THREE POEMS by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
ISADORE—THERE IS A DOOR SOMEWHERE paused in the breath of a thousand horses where we wait for light to catch our arms, bodies into nets, golden sea flecked with ravens’ wings. Dear, I want to fly as quick as I can into a canyon, leap hard into your eyelids—how they never formed enough…
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TWO POEMS by Danielle Mitchell
GOOGLE CENTO Enter: kim kardashian body If you know nothing else about Kim Kardashian, you know that she is an actual woman, a physical body: 5 feet 2 inches, 130 pounds, 38-26-42, 34D Kim Kardashian is queen of her self-made kingdom Kim Kardashian’s Entire Body Is Naked in These…
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excerpt from FIEBRE TROPICAL by Juliana Delgado Lopera
I met the Pastores at Iglesia Cristiana Jesucristo Redentor two days after we landed. To my surprise the church was a room, a room, inside The Hyatt a few blocks from our house. Was I the only one appalled by its lack of holiness? Did Mami wave her estrato like a flag of entitlement and…
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THREE POEMS by avery r. young
new testament i. in temple mudda: boy!!!!!!! gonna make my hair fall worryin if yo life still on dis side of groun(d) us been three day(s) lookin fo u u in herr runnin yo mouf hey-zeus: dunno y u worryin bout me u know whatchu had me fo i handlin my father bidness mudda: my God!!!!! …
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FWR Monthly:August 2015
The idea of voice has been hot on my mind lately. I think the ongoing work of folks like Amanda Johnston (one of the founders of Black Poets Speak Out)…
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FWR Monthly: July 2015
For this installment of our new monthly “mini-issues,” I wanted to present a small folio on a genre which seems to gain more and more attention, particularly among poets — the “photo-essay.”
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Ghosting, Invisibility and the Erasure of Particular Bodies: A Spell by Chris Abani
Introduction by Poetry Editor Nathan McClain: At our 20th annual Cave Canem Retreat last week, I learned that a camera, no matter how good a camera, is mechanical. This sounds like a simple statement, I know, but what it means is that a camera doesn’t see what you see; a camera only sees what’s in front…
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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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TWO POEMS by Sierra Golden
LIGHT BOAT n. A small fishing boat equipped with several 1,000-watt light bulbs hung from aluminum shades to attract squid to commercial fishing grounds. Jesse isn’t really a pirate, but the Coast Guard thinks so when he calls to say he found a body. It doesn’t matter that she’s still alive, so cold she stopped…
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TWO SHORT STORIES by Kevin McIlvoy
The Luthier’s mother’s mouth’s openness The Luthier’s mother’s mouth’s openness, her hands’ finger’s tremblings, her red hair’s fires’ warnings. It’s what you saw if you were making your last visit to her ever. You were the Luthier’s mother’s Possession when you walked into her son’s guitars’ home, in which son and mother also lived together…