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The Criminal Justice System threw us in a cell on Rikers Island to rot and die. We were two teenagers from Brooklyn, born into bondage and a bunch of bad luck. Our teenage years tapered off into being animalized by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. No one had taught us …

So many things about you I didn’t know. I suppose that is what happens when a grandmother dies. After all, I was only 18 when you left that day in May. All my teenage years you asked me if I had a boyfriend––no, sort of, not yet––now I understand perhaps behind the question was the …

Arctic Play by Mita Mahato (The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024, pre-order here) Mita Mahato is the author and artist of Arctic Play, forthcoming from The 3rd Thing. Her poetry comix have appeared in places including Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades. …

Arctic Play by Mita Mahato (The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024, pre-order here)Read an excerpt here on BR! Michelle Peñaloza: What inspired you to create Arctic Play, and how did your experience as a part of the Arctic Circle artist residency in the Norwegian Arctic of Svalbard influence the direction of the project? Did you …

The girl who sat down for a minute was used to being in a million places all at once, was used to being a million different people she had to be. She once served as the executive director of the turmoil clean up team back home, but that was years ago. I heard one day …

Former Bellingham Review contributor Andrea Hollander’s newest collection of poetry, And Now, Nowhere But Here (Terrapin Books, 2023), is a stunning display of wisdom, intimacy, and heart. The author invites us to sit with moments of grief and distinctive experiences of longing, allowing the reader the opportunity to feel everything at full capacity. With poems …

Until now, loss & body is howto articulate grief. The law of articulation states that the story is used to find the unknown. What is the story?A boy is chiseled wrong in the face and his name is what happens when a preacher jumps from faith to faith. His lineage, a long history of people …

Dear Reader, I’m currently sitting in a café with my roommate, who’s illustrating incredible imagery while rain drenches the verdant town of Bellingham. I’ve been flipping through a book about gay werewolves as I’m procrastinating writing this letter to you all, since I don’t always like to think about endings, and a large part of …

Only you would exit that way, your cashmere sweater draped on a chair, a lemon you nicked in your pocket. Only you could say when you don’t spend money on yourself, people notice, and leave me believing it was sage advice. Only you served up the perfect cappuccino – at Marco’s, at Besaw’s, and in …

C. Rees is a queer Pennsylvania-born eco-poet, writer, and New Writers Project alumnus living in Austin, TX. His work excavates the intersections between trauma and emergent landscapes, the contamination and contagion of violence, and lineage and complicity in rural settings. They fuse elements of speculative, horror, fabulist genres to explore the sediment of idealized “idyllic” …