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Dearest reader, I write to you from a place of transition right now—I pen this letter in the hours of the night that are simultaneously too early and too late, at a point in the year when the season starts to peel off her cloud-gray and shimmy into something warmer and brighter. Call it a …
Dear Reader,There is a version of this letter where I open with a metaphor. Something about fruit. Symbolic. It would be a reference to the new year and how hard it already is. A sliver of grace to ease us into this message before I must say the unsayable. I tried very hard to write …
Dear Reader, Let me begin by stating the obvious: we need art more than ever right now. We need honest and courageous words, and we need people thoughtfully engaging with them. Thank you for being here and taking the time to listen to the voices speaking through Issue 90 of Bellingham Review. This issue is …
Dear Reader, Sometimes I come dangerously close to believing some kind of Evil—the mandate of “take take take”—has taken over this world once and for all. At such times, I start to wonder where I might find a nice cave to call my own, or perhaps a soft patch of sand suitable for head-burying. But …
Even though my time as Managing Editor is coming to a close, I can’t help but choose gratefulness over sadness. I’m thankful for so many things, including everyone who submitted to our 2023 awards (for which we had a record number of submissions!) and anyone who came to our lovely AWP reading back in March, …
Dear Readers, I’m so happy you’re here. Creating the first fully online issue of Bellingham Review has been such a pleasure, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I’m in awe of our lineup of writers featured. This issue showcases a plethora of stunning poems, five deeply moving works of prose, innovative and energetic …
Literature may not fix our problems, but it fixes us to one another. It allows us to see that the view from another’s space in this world is both akin to ours and radically different.
Right now, our country faces a crisis of mass incarceration. With five percent of the world’s population, we have twenty-five percent of the world’s incarcerated people. The majority of these are held not in the federal prison system but in local facilities—jails.
Welcome to Bellingham Review’s Issue 79, our ninth annual online issue! Inside you’ll find the well-woven work of twenty-four different artists including writers of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Right now, our country faces a crisis of mass incarceration. With five percent of the world’s population, we have twenty-five percent of the world’s incarcerated people. The majority of these are held not in the federal prison system but in local facilities—jails.