Author: Heavy Feather

Four Poems by Sarah Cavar

POV: Asking my clinician what he will get me (free) My doctor foots an opening too small for me.A catholic chamber, tabernacle tight. Beast-abreastIn steady follow.Satan’s like a tabby fat these days, a six of furringpounds and ribs and ounces. A pussynot the coward-kind or catBut like the act of snatching. eating poem dishes on…
Two Poems from Vol. 10 by Michael Russell

i’ve never seen the ocean nightly, i dream itas open sore.my entire self, plummeting.an infection. the moon,scimitarof borrowed lightcutsinto the bruise— cerulean-wound,blood-saltmouthfuls. i am drowning in an inhumangalaxy. my lungs,unfit,this world—breathless. i’m not a fish.i hate to swim,this body—finless & withoutshark. my great white hearttornlike a scissored fin. love chums the waterwith rogue arms.my best…
The Part That Burns, a Split/Lip Press memoir in fragments by Jeannine Ouellette, reviewed by Lisa Elaine Low

This beautifully written book feels as much like a novel as a memoir. In it Jeannine Ouellette narrates the arc of a difficult life from childhood to the memoir’s present, about age fifty. By book’s end, Ouellette’s three children have grown up, moved out, and begun lives of their own. Ouellette suffers such unkindness as…
Naya Clark on Kim Chinquee’s SNOWDOG, a Ravenna Press flash fiction collection

At the crux of many people living in the humdrum of isolation and taking in stories quickly through social media, the “queen” of flash fiction Kim Chinquee’s new collection SNOWDOG satisfies taking in the brief and wandering details of everyday life. Oddly enough, the connecting factor isn’t solely people. Nearly every story within SNOWDOG features…
Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Animal Garden” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

follow the bagpipes into the animal garden,where the poet sharpens his pencils& scratches flea dog with a fire poker,where the bass fiddle player stokes his flames with a horsehair bow,where, in the salvage yard, the junkman turns over hubcaps for frogs & asks: ya wanna frolic in the hedges?ya wanna tickle the keys of an organ with…
MM/DD/2020: Three Residuals from RESIDUE

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. These pieces are from the book Residue (forthcoming 05/01/2021), a text/image collaboration of dream-inspired fictions by DD that were prompted by Rorschach-like prints by MM (collectively known as MM/DD/2020), both subconsciously rendered in response to the anxiety-ridden events of 2020. More information about the project can be…
I AM THIS STATE OF EMERGENCY, a debut poetry collection by Robin Myrick, reviewed by Janet Sarbanes (Surveyor Books)

In the late nineteen-sixties, composer Pauline Oliveros began a series of “Sonic Meditations,” early experiments in score-based deep listening that encouraged small groups of participants to listen attentively to their environments. “Take a walk at night,” reads one score. “Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” As Kerry O’Brien notes, Oliveros…
“The Marienbad Disaster, Part I – The Doorways of Jadeaux,” a short story for Haunted Passages by Phil Shreck

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in The Drum Literary Magazine, The Festival Review, Delay Fiction, and Misery Tourism. He is currently at work on his first novel, SMBH, which he calls a work of…
Bards & Brews Reader, a 2016-17 anthology of series performers

BNB logo designed by Emily Weddle Table of Contents FICTION “Shangri La Dee Da” Dan Mancilla “Bigfoot’s Overcoat” Matthew Fogarty NONFICTION “Staff Meeting” “Rescue” “Scorpio, Born in the Year of the Cock” “Go, Jim Dandy” Ginny MacDonald Broadside Excerpt from “Field Notes” Josh MacIvor-Andersen POETRY “How to Skin a Rabbit” “Assembly Instructions for…