“Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Review Favorites List for 2022

I’m a sucker for a year-end list. I love seeing what people enjoyed, adding to my TBR, and discovering new … More

“The Land of All Time”: William Lessard Interviews Clark Coolidge + Six Exclusive Poems

For six decades, Clark Coolidge has been presenting language awash in information, with jarring and frequently hilarious syntax. Although frequently … More

“Outside the door there is an animal writing my name in the blood of other animals”: William Lessard Interviews Adam Tedesco, Author of Mary Oliver

With the publication of Mary Oliver (Lithic Press, 2019), Adam Tedesco gives us a cycle of poems that places topics … More

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 … More

“A Catalogue of Things That Follows from Looking”: William Lessard Interviews Julia Madsen, author of The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland

Julia Madsen is a writer who thinks like a filmmaker, a filmmaker who thinks like a writer, and an artist … More

Two Pointed Objects, visual poems by William Lessard

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Fig. 12: Diagram for High-Capacity Automatic Rifle Fig. 16: Remote Control William … More

“Flightpath to Eternity”: William Lessard Reviews Pamela Ryder’s Paradise Field

Pamela Ryder uses the instruments of fiction to dismantle received notions of grief and aging. With the death of her … More

Three Poems by William Lessard

<en passant> the hammer i raised to my father’s skullholds open the bathroom window history is sometimes the breezethat enters … More