A Review of Mary Soon Lee’s Elemental Haiku, poems to honor the periodic table, three lines at a time By Esther Santiago Where the appreciation of science and poetry collides: A Review of Mary Soon Lee’s Elemental Haiku, poems to honor the periodic table, three lines at a time When…
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Dead Poets Society: New England Chapter
Call me cliché, but with winter hanging around, the topic of death is on my mind more often than usual. This winter has been a little strange, with warmer temperatures than normal, but we won’t get into why that is. It has certainly increased outdoor activities – I’ve seen more…
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Poetry and Me: How writing can act like therapy
Have you ever been bogged down by emotions? Been so stuck in life that you felt a little less than? Maybe you’ve even struggled with mental illness. No matter how small or severe these feelings may be, there is something that you can do to help: write! Throughout the 19…
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On Charles Bukowski: Why never going crazy is horrible
Who is Bukowski? Over the summer when I was able to spend some free time reading for fun, I was looking into some new poets. It was initially difficult to put down Rupi Kaur’s the sun and her flowers, yet I was also very intrigued by another poet’s unapologetic and…
Interview with Poet Kimiko Hahn, By Taylor Caron (2017)
Kimiko Hahn is a nationally recognized and accoladed poet with 10 diverse collections of poetry to her name. These include Volatile, The Artist’s Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems, and the recent Brain Fever. One can track the trajectory of her career by observing the variety of poses…
2017 Long River Review Content
To our dedicated readers, We have begun the process of uploading a few select pieces for you to enjoy from our latest issue. Some links are provided below. Keep an eye out in the coming days for more excerpted content, by checking our ‘Recent Posts’ sidebar on the homepage, or…
“The things that hold you back can often help you”: An Interview with Poet Allison Joseph, By Taylor Caron (2017)
It’s been said that expectations are best kept low when meeting a brilliant writer. This advice makes sense when one considers that a writer is presenting their best, most polished self on the page. The real thing should inevitably yield disappointing. I feel privileged in being able to verify that…
“Fears After the Indonesian Forest Fires” By Anna Ziering (2017)
Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Winner (2017) Death, of course. Having no God. Sunday afternoons, New England falls. Sleet storms like the one that dented the new car and traumatized the dog, who never liked loud noise; who, like me when I was young, couldn’t stomach fireworks. They made us cry—that…
“New Year on Pleasure Island” By Brian Sneeden (2017)
Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Second Place (2017) What I did not know to make made itself in vestigial hours between two o’clock and dawn, when the shapes of birds stitch together in my mind, and a single cicada peels the air. Each letter I write returns to water. I start…
“La Fusión” By Gabriela García Sánchez (2017)
It was reverence I felt then, and I did not cower as it vibrated through me. El ritmo bonded us by our pies, our caderas, ventilating the air with scales speeding by. The beats amplified between our pechos, whistling for our cuerpos to collide. So I took a breath that…