Jon Bohr Heinen – Page 4 – swamp pink

Special Feature: Troy Osaki

My Beloved Leaves Her Job Mid-September She’s chosen, instead, to organize ………….full-time for our country……………………..we, once, hand-dug holes to plant rice in. We wear,………….often, our grandparents’……………………..clothes—a sun-faded cap, her lola’s overcoat. Shoulders, ………….padded. The smell of Manila ……………………..traffic from years ago…………stuck to wool. She asks her closest friend ………….in the office to not believe……………………..what’ll be...

Special Feature: Carla Crujido

The Tower Because it is 1918. Because there is flu called Spanish. Because you are delicate. Your lover keeps you locked in your third story apartment to keep you safe. “A damsel in a tower,” he says as he runs his fingers over your unbrushed hair. * He brings news of Spokane to you, but...

Special Feature: Jenee Skinner

The Mountain Keeper I shouted my sister’s name in places I’d already searched and come up with nothing. Even if only the breeze answered me back, I just wanted to hear a voice tell me something. Words were movement, even if it was in a circle. But silence was a dead end that made me...

3 Poems from Special Features Guest Editor, Geffrey Davis

The Waiting The first time I saw fog…..rewrite a river’s face,……….matter’s transformation offered…..its myth about change—……….so I converted to The Churchof Family Salvation. I hoarded my dearest hallelujahs……….for my addict father’s returnfrom the sick clouds,……….the storm of his hands anchored…..in safety and loyal onlyto staunching the Old Testament…..of his absences. I tried praying………….against yearning until...

Special Feature: Maya Marshall

Anatomy of a Fishhook . . . how can I defend myself against what I want?.—Henri Cole I fix my mouth to gather youas our-other-selves stand in a doorwayeyeing us; inside—here—is a flurry of embers.My touch amuses you—down, up; hard, quiet. “I’m close,” you whisper.I palm your knee, stroke your throat,and you remain whole as...

Special Feature: Arianne True

imago Persephone in the rust belt self Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a queer poet and folk artist from Seattle. She teaches and mentors youth poets around Puget Sound and moonlights as a copyeditor. Arianne has received fellowships from Jack Straw and the Hugo House and is a proud alum of Hedgebrook and of the MFA program...

Special Feature: Edil Hassan

One Self I Sing In the Qur’an, poets are depicted as bewildering liars. Language—an unlawful alchemy, a sinner’s sihr. On the one-on-one datewith God, I shout, Deny me an afterlife! I’ll just make a new one,and horns sprout from my head. My mother, workshoppingher childhood, recalls stolen shillings and the emptied pocketsof nuns. What is...

What started swamp pink?

February 22, 2022 | blog, news

Nearly twenty years ago, Crazyhorse found a home at the College of Charleston. Between then and now, we’ve taken great pride in publishing exceptional writing. For a time, admittedly, our objective seemed clear and singular. We have arrived at a place where the holistic nature of what we do—the symbolic properties of what we are and the...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Jung Hae Chae

October 26, 2021 | blog, news

Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer. She is winner of the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares. Her work has appeared (or will soon) in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been included in the Pushcart Prize collection. She is currently at work on a memoir that examines...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Mary Clark

October 26, 2021 | blog, news

Mary Clark grew up in Baltimore and after many years of living in Massachusetts, returned to her roots to write novels. She earned an MFA in Poetry from The University of Iowa. Her poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Fiction, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and will appear in J Journal: New Writing...

Joy Is the Garden: A Review of Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lace & Pyrite

June 21, 2021 | blog, book reviews

Z.L. Nickels Lace & Pyrite 19 pp. Get Fresh Books. $10.00 The most neglected book of garden poems you have never read is not really a book at all. Rather, it is a reprint of an unheralded contribution to literature’s epistolary project, a small gathering of poems-as-letters by two of this country’s best poets, Ross...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D'Aries

November 2, 2020 | blog, news

Dawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents parts pulled together from a full-length work of creative nonfiction. As an editor and journalist, she has written on a variety of news and feature topics, and counts The Rumpus among her most recent creative nonfiction credits....