Author: Heavy Feather
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Haunted Passages: Two Poems by Carolyn Supinka
Haunted House The haunted house does not require a history, but it needs a mouth: a previous, innocent tenant, someone to live to tell the tale. I can speak for its corners. Very lean and fine, alien landscapes of plateaus and dead red rivers spilling out behind, smoke of past lives burned and rising as…
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“Accepting Your Planethood,” a guide by Carolyn Supinka for Bad Survivalist
1 You have just received your diagnosis. At this stage, we advise you try not to think about it too much. It is no small thing to become a planet. Take three deep breaths. If you are near a window, look outside. Do not look directly at the sun, but think about the sun. Feel…
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“‘Survivor Lit vs. Adventurer Lit’: The Varying Aesthetics of Forced Migration vs. Voluntary Travel” by Cristina Deptula for Bad Survivalist
More people are refugees than ever before, and more people are able to publish and read books than ever before. Many other brilliant essayists have looked at how the dislocation of migration has showed up in the form as well as the content of literature. Here, in this piece, through interviews with three emerging authors…
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Portrait of Sebastian Khan, a 7.13 Books debut novel by Aatif Rashid, reviewed by Mahnoor Khan
Portrait of Sebastian Khan is a coming-of-age novel of great intrigue by Aatif Rashid. Sebastian, a mixed ethnicity Muslim, is a college senior who is troubled by the time remaining until his upcoming graduation. To complicate matters, he is also a free-spirited, womanizing soul when it comes to his commitments. The novel takes place in…
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“Itinerant Creative Content & Coaching LLC”: Wednesday Work Day Interview by Hillary Leftwich
Wednesday Work Day is a series started by editor Hillary Leftwich to showcase and support creatives who offer services, both in-person or online, and are impacted by the pandemic and the shutdowns both statewide as well as in other countries. The series will showcase one business or individual that is still able to provide a…
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Catrachos, a Graywolf Press debut poetry collection by Roy G. Guzmán, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez
Not too long ago, I described to a friend that the poetry of B.H. Fairchild was “muscular,” a word that I wasn’t too fond of—mainly because it felt a bit unnatural to assign bodily characteristics to poetry, not to mention that it implies a certain masculinity that might be unwarranted—but one that I used to…
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Savage Pageant, a hybrid poetry debut by Jessica Q. Stark, reviewed by Rita Hynes
Jessica Q. Stark’s Savage Pageant is a cut and paste of celebrity biography, online comment threads, archival drawings, and Google maps. It is a collection of poems, memoir, trauma, and history. It is a scrapbook of American nostalgia. It is a circus. Savage Pageant is written in four acts and three intermissions, like show cards…
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Asa Montgomery: Three Poems from The Future
Like having your eyes sewn shut 1 Someone planted a treein my stomach. Roots tore through my ribs, limbs pokingunder my fingertips. Light splintered bark. My fingers felt the sun in the backs of human necks.Leaves brushed the backs of my lips. Invisible birds karee karee-ing,moths’ creaking their door hinge wings, leaving white dust in…
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The Future: Sacred Places Tarot Deck by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. The Night City Providence, from twilight to the hour of the wolf. The hill, the river, the secret stairs behind the clock tower. Night walks, filled with nostalgia. Lantern-lined streets, haunted streets, and the sound of rain falling darkly into a storm drain. The song of the…
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