Author: Heavy Feather
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Poetry: Peter Schwartz’s “a dozen parables”
1.there once was a farmer who always saw the sunrise, he died in a weird experiment with mosquitoes and bees. 2.once was a pilot with nowhere to go who invented chess. 3.once was a student who coveted manhood, he developed a new way of looking at time and space but was completely penniless in the…
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Nonfiction Review: Vivian Wagner on Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, a memoir by Lori Jakiela
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe tells the story, on one level, of Lori Jakiela’s search for her birth mother. She encounters more than she expects in this search, however, and the story ends up being as much a self-exploration as it is a search for someone outside of herself. It’s a complicated,…
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Fiction Review: Mika Kennedy on The Farmacist by Ashley Farmer
The digital is often framed as a site of contagion—one can contract fatal viruses (or send them). One can suffer the pollution of good ol’ American values—the allure of exotic chrome and pixels from the Silicon Valley proving altogether too enticing. Indeed, the Valley itself was once good ol’ American farmland, before wresting technological eminence…
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Poetry: Three Boundary Critiques by Andrew Rihn
I. Convergent Boundaries The Himalayan mountain range formedwhen two tectonic plates converged,their equal densities raising them uplike a sacrifice to the gods.Rick met Ilsa in Paris, a monthbefore Paris met the Germans.Convergence like this reversesour faults. We finish one another’ssentences. They drank from each other’sglasses at La Belle Aurore.She wore blue, the Germans wore grey.Convergence…
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Fiction Review: Zachary Kocanda on Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France by Bryan Hurt
Not too long ago, I read of a city in France that installed short story dispensers, a reason to travel to the country even if one is not, say, the ambassador to the country, a career I had not considered before reading Bryan Hurt’s debut collection. Thankfully, readers do not have to use a short…
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“A Cloudy Morality Tale”: Benjamin Kinney Reviews Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor
Dating back to the old saying “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you,” there is an understanding in our society that performing good deeds is a lucrative venture. Only recently have authors and artists begun to unpack the logic of this statement: if we perform good deeds for others with the…
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Two Poems by D.W. Lichtenberg
The Upset of My Hope Fool I wrote Chet this email and I was telling him you know best friends are like two guys on this deserted island and like there’s a bunch of little islands all over the ocean and I would ask Chet if he wanted to go to all the other islands…
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“Sometimes Grief Can Be Its Own Police”: A Conversation on the Moving Picture I’m Not Patrick by Julia Mae Ftacek, Matt Weinkam, & Jason Teal
Starting Heavy Feather as a publishing outfit in the Midwest, there have always been more successful, tenured venues I looked up to as goliaths to emulate in independent literature. Two Dollar Radio was one of those presses, early on, by which I became shell shocked, browsing their thirty-odd titles on display at my first AWP…
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Hybrid Review: Sarah Katz on Intersex, lyrical essays/prose poems by Aaron Apps
Blood bubbles, silver fat, gut foam, chestnut fluid—you’re not supposed to look at or think about these things, but that’s the name of the game as a reader of Intersex. With his memoir of lyrical essays/prose poems and photographs, Aaron Apps—who also authored Compos(t) Mentis (BlazeVox, 2012), and Dear Herculine (Ahsahta Press, 2014), winner of the…
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