“There was a commotion out in the courtyard and I looked out my window to see Senior being attacked by the Big Bear and I ran out of the house and into the courtyard and yelled, Stop it Big Bear! and Big Bear turned to me with blood on his snout and I saw that he had taken a bite out of Senior.”
“The restaurant was across the Dupont Circle Metro escalators. I must have barfed in their restroom, across the kitchen, at least a hundred times.”
Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He teaches in Rhode Island. Suchi J. Pritchard is a painter and poet originally hailing from an island on the west coast who is currently an MFA candidate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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).
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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) […]
The first time I saw them, more than a decade ago now, they were standing in a circle behind the sun’s shadow.
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 […]
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.
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