Tag: erasure

  • Side A Visual Poetry: “Autoimmunity” by Allison Thung

    Side A Visual Poetry: “Autoimmunity” by Allison Thung

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes.[1] Mini-interview with Allison Thung HFR: Can you share a moment that has shaped you as a writer (or continues to)? AT: A moment that particularly stands out to me is when I stumbled into the world of contemporary literary journals, discovered a category of publications (present company…

  • Bad Survivalist: “DON’T CHIDE THE HOOTCH” & other RIP VW erasure/collages by Nance Van Winckel

    Bad Survivalist: “DON’T CHIDE THE HOOTCH” & other RIP VW erasure/collages by Nance Van Winckel

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Nance Van Winckel’s ninth poetry collection, The Many Beds of Martha Washington, is just out with the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series/Lynx House Press. She’s also published a book of visual poems with Pleiades Press (2016) and five books of fiction, most recently Ever Yrs, a novel in the form…

  • Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato

    Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. SCARLET is a digital visual/poetic meditation on the fractured state of psyche induced by extended social isolation under COVID-19 lockdown. The digital/visual poems are created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life in lockdown. The titles of poems in…

  • “May 11th”: An Unreleased Collaborative Erasure by Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch

    “May 11th”: An Unreleased Collaborative Erasure by Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch

    Ryan Bollenbach here. Heavy Feather Review is publishing short pieces on the blog from writers who have collaborated on previous projects in order to give potential collaborators ideas and stoke excitement for The Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship (collaboration itself being the biggest takeaway I hope to create from all this). Please read…

  • Sara Adams: Three Erasures

    Sara Adams: Three Erasures

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Head Librarian Erasure from Stephen King’s It Love Poem Erasure from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea His Heart Was Shit Erasure from Stephen King’s It Sara Adams is the author of three chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press), Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press)…

  • Artist Spotlight: Four Visual Poems by Sarah J. Sloat

    Artist Spotlight: Four Visual Poems by Sarah J. Sloat

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Sarah J. Sloat reminds us that even in our digital culture writing is about texture. Combining words, images, and erasure, her work exposures the landscape residing within every page. Sloat is a poetic detective that looks behind the whiteness. At her hand, the line of text moving…

  • “A Growing Crisis,” a Presidential erasure by Tara Campbell

    “A Growing Crisis,” a Presidential erasure by Tara Campbell

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Tara Campbell (taracampbell.com) is a fiction editor at Barrelhouse and an MFA candidate at American University. Prior publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, b(OINK), Booth, Spelk, Jellyfish Review, Strange Horizons, and Heavy Feather Review. Her debut novel, TreeVolution, was published in 2016, and her collection, Circe’s…

  • Two Erasures from As We Know by Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch

    Two Erasures from As We Know by Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Amaranth Borsuk’s most recent book is Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016), a collection of poems. Previous books include Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure poem. Abra (1913 Press,…

  • “TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump’s Speech Responding to Assault Accusations,” erasure by Mackenzie Bush

    “TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump’s Speech Responding to Assault Accusations,” erasure by Mackenzie Bush

    And so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and the New York Times and other media outlets, as part of a concerted, coordinated and vicious attack. It’s not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at…