Author: Heavy Feather

Poetry Review: Ashley Honeysett Reads Aditi Machado’s Collection Material Witness

You should read Aditi Machado. You should read everything she writes—I am on that path myself, but I’m only two books in, so we can race each other if you start now. Her new collection, Material Witness, is short. It contains six poems, two of which take up more pages than their word count might…
Bradford A. Masoni Talks to Suspect Gina Tron about Her New Memoir

Gina Tron is no stranger to raw honesty on the page. A prolific writer and poet, she has authored three memoirs, including her 2014 debut You’re Fine, praised by Interview Magazine as “vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid.” Her most recent memoir, Suspect, delves into complex topics like bullying, toxic female friendships, and the systemic…
“River on Fire”: Alex Gurtis Reads Darren C. Demaree’s New Poetry Collection So Much More

Darren C. Demaree’s latest collection, So Much More, feels particularly relevant in a year of political upheaval. So Much More is constructed around a series of abstracts, fragments, and political prose poems that deconstruct toxic landscapes disintegrating through the violence of human greed while addressing the fears of passing this world on to the next…
Haunted Passages Poetry by Eliot Cardinaux: “From the Surface of Time’s Ambivalence”

A broadcast of our non-existence, which terrifies others, comes through the Radio of Wet Clay & writes itself in my notebook. About the future distinguished—not by its undecidedly analog or digital construction—but from this present, living future (no, not precisely living; the word would be adjective)—it is said, that it risks going forward without an…
Poetry Review: Scott Ferry Reads George Franklin’s Collection What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused

In reading some poetry collections one is immediately overwhelmed with the narrative and drawn in. Many such books are so intricate and complete in creating their own self-sustaining world that it is almost impossible to describe this microcosm to an outsider. George Franklin has written such a book and now I have taken on the…
Sunday Comix: “Shanty” by Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin is a writer, multimedia artist, and musician, the author of 33 books including, recently, the author of Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 (Assembly Press), Ovaryman (a play written with Tom Prime, published in Dead Code and other dramatic entertainments, Anti-Oedipus Press), and The Fabulous Op (with Gregory Betts,…
Daniel A. Rabuzzi Talks with Ken Scholes about Rewriting the Bible, Genre, and the Influence of Music on Writing

Ken Scholes is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories published internationally in eight languages. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is published by Tor Books, and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Fairwood is also publishing Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of…
Fiction Review: Matt Martinson Reads GauZ’s Novel Comrade Papa

“Everything here needs to be invented, beginning with ourselves,” so says a European colonizer on the Ivory coast early in Comrade Papa, but he may as well be describing every character in this, the second book by GauZ’ to be translated into English. Here two characters, generations apart, narrate their respective experiences of coming of…
“where we sharpen ourselves on the scoliotic spine of Death’s scythe”: A Haunted Passages Poem by Panika M. C. Dillon

we hide in the belly of a beast who would burn Troy & hollow out a home in the rubble of Rome. Zaporizhzhia: a power station, a cage of swords paved in prayer cards you sent by the truckload. we’re bound for hell with gongs tied to our galoshes. not you though. you can keep…