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+ Featured Nonfiction Spring 2021

An Interview with John Keene on the Power of Narrative From 1613 to Today

+ Featured Spring 2021

BIPOC Mentorship Contest Winners!

+ Fall 2020 Featured Fiction Poetry

The Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest

+ Fall 2020 Featured Nonfiction

Anxious Fish | Ysabelle Cheung

+ Featured Nonfiction Spring 2021

An Interview with John Keene on the Power of Narrative From 1613 to Today

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
Monique Ngozi Nri

John Keene is a Distinguished Professor of English and African-American and African Studies at Rutgers-Newark, where he has served as the chair of the African-American and African Studies department since 2015. In his own words, he says, “I’m a writer, a translator, an artist, an editor, and a mentor.” He […]

+ Fiction Spring 2021

Chicken Souvlaki, 1965 | Sara Brenes Akerman

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021
Sara Brenes Akerman

The mind is a strange place. Recently I had a sex dream about movie director Peter Bogdanovich, and I don’t even have those kinds of feelings for Peter Bogdanovich, or at least I don’t think I do. Historian Robert Caro was also in the dream—the guy who’s writing the five-volume […]

+ Featured Spring 2021

BIPOC Mentorship Contest Winners!

February 21, 2021February 21, 2021
Chime Lama

We are very happy to announce the winners of the Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest! Fiction Winner – Suzette Lam Poetry Winner – Nicole Robitaille Wishing them a fruitful mentorship with Madeleine Thien and Mónica de la Torre!

+ Poetry Spring 2021

An Interview | Taisia Kitaiskaia on Mystic, Moody, and Playful Things

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021
Anneysa Gaille

Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer whose work has developed an idiosyncratic mythopoetics that revels in language’s creaturely underbelly, as seen most recently in The Nightgown and Other Poems, a poetry collection published by Deep Vellum in 2020. Kitaiskaia generously answered my questions over the course of several […]

+ Poetry Spring 2021

On Being Vulnerable | Karl Michael Iglesias

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021
Karl Michael Iglesias

Karl  Michael  Iglesias  is  an  actor,  director,  and  writer  originally  from Milwaukee, WI. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and First Wave Hip  Hop  Theater  Ensemble,  he continues his exploration of verse and heightened language in the theater.  His  poetry  can  be  found  in  Apogee,  The Acentos Review, The […]

+ Nonfiction Spring 2021

Encountering Iron | Jeri Griffith

January 29, 2021January 27, 2021
Jeri Griffith

The port city of Bilbao is good place to encounter iron. With a history steeped in steel, ship-building and the shipping industry, the tradition for iron works and iron workers runs deep. That heritage is celebrated by artist Richard Serra at Guggenheim Bilbao in his monumental work titled The Matter […]

Spring 2021 Visual Art

Old New York | Chava Dimaio

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021
Chava Dimaio

The ‘new’ New York, even as new as it was, is already a memory of the past. Things are always changing. New York has not. This serves as an homage to the one thing that has stayed stable my entire life. When I grow up, I want to be just like you: Thanks New York.

+ Poetry Spring 2021

Mónica de la Torre on Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021
Chime Lama

Interview with Mónica de la Torre on Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 by Chime Lama Adding to the great efforts of anthologizing concrete poetry undertaken by Emmett Williams, Mary Ellen Solt, Victoria Bean, and Chris McCabe, among others, Mónica de la Torre and Alex Balgiu’s latest work gives us another […]

+ Poetry Spring 2021

The Process | Rose Pacult

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
Rose Pacult

Rose Pacult is a multimedia artist and author. She has worked with Massimo De Carlo to the Bethanien Kunstquartier. Rose’s writings can be read on Wig Wag Magazine, Untoward Magazine, and Essay Daily, and appear in various books including Knowing Zasd by His Walk (Dokument Press)and Unfolded Perceptions (Grund). 

Poetry Spring 2021

Two Poems | Aiden Heung

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021
Aiden Heung

Aiden Heung is a Chinese queer poet born and raised on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. He writes about his personal past in a Tibetan Autonomous Town and the city of Shanghai where he currently lives. His words appeared or forthcoming in The Australian Poetry Journal, Cha: An Asian […]

+ Poetry Spring 2021

Two Poems | Cai Rodrigues-Sherley

January 1, 2021January 3, 2021
Cai Rodrigues-Sherley
Fall 2020 Visual Art

Mormorial | Peter O’Brien

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Peter O'Brien

Joyce said, “My head is full of pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and bits of glass picked up ’most everywhere,” which leads me to integrate wit, wisdom, and wreckage where I find them.

+ Fall 2020 Featured Fiction Poetry

The Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest

December 1, 2020December 6, 2020
Chime Lama

The Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest The Brooklyn Review is holding a contest to offer mentorship to BIPOC writers of Poetry and Fiction. All work submitted to the competition will be considered for publication. One winner from each genre will receive mentorship for three months, the inclusion of their work […]

+ Fall 2020 Poetry

Little Adoragony / Māyāblues Driver | Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby

November 27, 2020December 9, 2020
Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby

Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby is a poet. She has chapbooks with Belladonna* (Daisy & Catherine) & Black Warrior Review (Sonnet Infinitesimal / Material Girl), the latter is also in The Best American Experimental Writing 2020. She has a radio play on Montez Press Radio (Mairead Connect Radio Club: Point A) […]

Fall 2020 Fiction

Outside | Abbigail N. Rosewood

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020
Abbigail Rosewood

The first time I saw them, more than a decade ago now, they were standing in a circle behind the sun’s shadow.

+ Fall 2020 Poetry

Four Poems | mónica teresa ortiz

November 12, 2020November 23, 2020
mónica teresa ortiz

mónica teresa ortiz was born and raised in Texas. The author of muted blood, published by Black Radish Books in 2018, and winner of the inaugural Host Publications Chapbook Prize, autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist, published in 2019, ortiz currently lives in the Texas Panhandle. Allyson Joan Erwin is an […]

Fall 2020 Fiction

The Bathroom | Kira Obolensky

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020
Kira Obolensky

It seems hard to believe that she, Darla, has met a Viscount through an online dating service, but he (his name she reminds herself is “Rupert”) has confirmed that yes, indeed, he does have a title. He did so with a self-deprecating shrug as if to say it was entirely out of his hands.

+ Fall 2020 Poetry

Three Poems | Suzanne S. Rancourt

October 10, 2020November 23, 2020
Suzanne S. Rancourt

Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron descent, has authored two books: Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press / NU Press 2nd print, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released May 2019. Ms. Rancourt is a multi-modal EXAT and CASAC with an […]

+ Fall 2020 Nonfiction

Canada | Erika Veurink

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
Erika Veurink

1. Drawn on the back of an uncorrected proof of Aaron Kunin’s Love Three is a grid-like arrangement of thirty-six circles. Thirty-five of them are penciled in like test answers. The rows of spheres slant left. They are the hours I have waited to see him. I turn the book […]

+ Fall 2020 Poetry

Open Window at 3PM When I Was Seven | Maya Salameh

October 3, 2020November 23, 2020
Maya Salameh

Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and Leonard Slade Endowment. Syrian by way of San Diego, she has performed her writing at venues including the Obama White House, Carnegie Hall, and her parents’ kitchen. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Asian American Writer’s […]

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