Author: Heavy Feather

“I Like the Idea of a Little Kid Walking Into a Comic Store and Finding Something They Can Sink Their Teeth Into”: An Interview with Jesse Moynihan by Colette Arrand

Read a page of Jesse Moynihan’s Forming. Really. One. They’re all available for free on his website for you try-it-before-you-buy-it types, and for those of you who don’t have a comic book store, or the type of store that stocks collections published by Nobrow Press. I’ll do it with you: I just flipped open my…
On the Street of Divine Love, new and selected poems by Barbara Hamby, reviewed by Jordan Sanderson

Barbara Hamby’s On the Street of Divine Love is magnificent. Containing fifteen new poems and a distillation of her previous four collections, it should secure her place among the best American poets. Hamby is the master of the contemporary ode, many of which are included here, and the collection as a whole is an ode…
Contributors’ Corner: Abigail Welhouse

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Abigail Welhouse, whose poems appear in 2.2. Abigail Welhouse’s writing has appeared in the Heavy Feather Review, The Toast, Yes Poetry, Lyre Lyre, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She studies poetry and translation in the MFA program at…
A Different Bed Every Time, short stories by Jac Jemc, reviewed by Emily Kiernan

There is a cold wisdom shining through the stories in Jac Jemc’s A Different Bed Every Time, a detached and wry intelligence that seems to let us watch from over its shoulder, smiling commiseratorially, but never quite telling us what it sees. The stories we witness here are often surprising, sometimes surreal, and frequently heartbreaking,…
How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, a story collection by Kate Bernheimer, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

In the title story of Kate Bernheimer’s latest collection, How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, we encounter a universe where dolls talk and little girls receive trays of lollipops and jelly beans as nighttime snacks. A universe, it would seem, of childhood fantasy. And yet, as with the other stories in the…
Contributors’ Corner: Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Cynthia Marie Hoffman, whose four prose poems appear in 3.2. Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of Sightseer, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, and the forthcoming…
Mira Corpora, a novel by Jeff Jackson, reviewed by Kyle Coma-Thompson

“These days I’m on a need-to-know basis with myself.” Two-thirds of the way into Jeff Jackson’s Mira Corpora, the novel’s narrator makes this brief, rare admission of self-awareness. It could also serve as a statement of purpose and description of a method. Reading like the remains of a novel, the leftovers of a trauma narrative…
Kimonos in the Closet, poems by David Shumate, reviewed by Jordan Sanderson

Organized in thematic clusters, the poems in David Shumate’s Kimonos in the Closet are poems of exchange—cultural, historical, mythological, and personal. Shumate has long occupied a prominent place in the world of prose poetry, but his prose poems ring differently from those of other practitioners of the form. They do not often systematically derange the…
The Fatherlands, prose poems by Michael Trocchia, reviewed by Nick Kocz

I thought often of the surrealist painters of the last century—specifically, Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico—while reading The Fatherlands, Michael Trocchia’s brooding chapbook of thirty-three Roman-numbered prose poems. The opening piece, with its evocation of “a time when the hours themselves will be melted down for the glass of transparent death” brings to mind…