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Shirts or Skins, a 2014 poetry chapbook by Jim Redmond
Image: Cristina Troufa Winner of the 2014 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Noah Eli Gordon, author of The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom: “Jim Redmond’s poems are situated between the palm at the end of the mind and the parking lot of a now-gutted Midwestern Denny’s. Like the twisted portraiture of Francis Bacon or…
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The way the sky was now, a 2013 fiction chapbook by Ryder Collins
Image: Eben A. Kling Winner of the 2013 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and Other Stories: “‘And so it came to be. & so it came to be that Big Mama squatted and borned us. & we came out squalling and waving sticks.’ This is the way we’re…
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Facts about Snakes & Hearts, a 2015 poetry chapbook by Flower Conroy
Image: Michael McConnell Winner of the 2015 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Kristina Marie Darling, author of Dark Horse: “Formally dexterous and luminous in its imagery, Flower Conroy’s Facts about Snakes & Hearts skillfully situates the age-old tradition of the love lyric in a postmodern literary landscape. Presenting us with ‘flames,’ ‘a wishing bell,’ and…
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Follow Through, a 2014 fiction chapbook by Colin Winnette
Image: Grazyna Smalej Winner of the 2014 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Lucy Corin, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses: “Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.” Table of Contents>>
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Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Lowcountry Chef” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor
down on the banks of the Ocmulgee River,we ride that coal train to the steps of the cemetery,where the lowcountry chef soaks red beans in well water& grinds down brown rice to flour, sayin, i crack an egg open on the spring equinox, slice offa piece of salami & squeak. holdin a jar of honeysuckle…
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Fatema Al Fardan & Sara Pan Algarra: Reflections on Winning The 2020 Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship
Ryan Bollenbach here. Heavy Feather Review is publishing short pieces on the blog from writers who have collaborated on previous projects in order to give potential collaborators ideas and stoke excitement for The Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship (collaboration itself being the biggest takeaway I hope to create from all this). Please read…
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Three Haunted Passages Poems by Jordan Stempleman
Problem Solving I wanted to watch a Western,a dirtier the better Western, where everybodyaccidentally kills everybodyjust after they say in unisonThe purpose of pop cultureis summary, and just after they take off their hats,and long before they ever revealwho they really are.Guns are allowedif they’re always going off.And the people who do survivesurvive in spite…
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“Dream of Me,” a Haunted Passages poem by David Ly
I’m walking downa cold tunnel. The walls curveup to a ceiling of water. An enormoustentacled shadowpasses over, making the hairs stand on the back of my neck.Ahead of me, a boy appearsturned away from me, dripping wet not even shivering.I tilt my headand so does he. My heart begins beating quicker because nobody should be…
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Heck, Texas, an Atlatl Press travelogue by Tex Gresham, reviewed by Eric Aldrich
“I’ll start my review of Tex Gresham’s Heck, Texas with a contrast,” I thought. “I’ll look up some wholesome facts about Jasper, Texas, the community profiled in the book, and then highlight ways the town’s officially-projected personality differed from Gresham’s caricature of it.” This was the idea, but it took nothing more than Wikipedia to…
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