Subscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from J. A. Tyler, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. The complete set includes handwritten artifacts from Geffrey Davis, Staci R. Schoenfeld, Lucas Southworth, Chelsea Biondolillo, Sandy Longhorn and J. A. Tyler.
Today is the last day to get a contributor airplane (or all of them!), so don't miss out!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Sandy Longhorn, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Longhorn, check out her contributor spotlight, where she discusses her two HFR53 poems!
Tomorrow our contributor airplane offer will be J. A. Tyler!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Lucas Southworth, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Southworth, check out his contributor spotlight, wherein he discusses the last sentence of his HFR53 story, "There Isn't Any Ghost."
We will be back next week with contributor airplanes from Chelsea Biondolillo, Sandy Longhorn and J. A. Tyler!
Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Geffrey Davis, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Davis, check out his contributor spotlight from last month.
Tomorrow our contributor airplane offer will be Staci R. Schoenfeld.
Read MoreStarting tomorrow, subscriptions (or resubscriptions) to Hayden’s Ferry Review will come with a paper airplane featuring handwritten work by a contributor in our Departure issue. Each day will feature a different writer. What’s that? You say you want to collect them all? Well, if you buy a two-year subscription, you’ll get six paper airplanes, one from each contributor. There are limited amounts, so once they’re gone, they’re gone. We’ll post each day to remind you whose work you’ll receive.
We hope you’ll enjoy these carefully crafted artifacts and celebrate another year of HFR with us!
Read MoreI have never been to Auschwitz, or any concentration camp for that matter. Neither do I have family members who are Holocaust survivors. And yet, the Holocaust is all over the manuscript. I begin to reconcile this by considering the nature of American Jews from my generation and also the enigma of poetics. As for the former, I am absolutely an inheritor of Jewish anxiety from my grandparents and parents, which was also manifest in my Hebrew school experiences as a child. For the past two summers, I’ve gone with my mentor, Carolyn Forché, to Thessaloniki and the island, Thassos, in Greece. My mother’s family is Sephardic, and though her family’s diaspora spreads through many countries, the Greco-Turkish region around Thessaloniki is a significant one—I am named for my mother’s father, who I never met, and his father came from this place.
Read MoreGrade school, junior high, and high school were all difficult for me. It always felt like I didn’t know quite how to act like other kids—though I had friends, I often felt apart from them. In the second grade, my teacher sent home the following note with my grades: “She’s a loner who gets along well with the other children.”
Once, I spent an entire afternoon on my stomach in my front yard, searching every clover for the four-leafs. The neighborhood kids had been teasing me and I hadn’t even noticed. I was too excited about all the luck I was amassing.
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