The Gender Revolution, Televised began as a layman’s rumination on gender identity—what it means, what it does, how it starts. I suppose it was also fueled by my pessimistic view that whenever society has an opportunity to learn some great lesson, it typically squanders it, focusing instead on rants and curiosities. That’s certainly been true for pretty much any racial, religious, or gender-based scandal in recent history.
Read MoreThis April, Hayden's Ferry Review will be hosting its first AWP reading with two other awesome southwest journals, Superstition Review, and Blue Mesa Review.
Read MoreHere's a sampling of what our contributors have been up to in 2014.
Brent Armendinger: The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying
Brent Armendinger, whose piece “Dennis Richmond” was featured in issue 54 of Hayden’s Ferry Review, has recently released a chapbook entitled The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying through Noemi Press. Chronicling narratives about gay life in the age of AIDS, the book balances ethics with queer desire. Poems within have been described as “admirably attentive to sadness, breath, and desire” (Maggie Nelson) and “capable of rendering the incredibly porous and vulnerable state of the desiring mind” (Brian Teare). More information about The “Ghost in Us Was Multiplying” can be found here. Brent has also had his latest poem, “Casual Sex,” published in Bloom Literary Journal, which can be accessed here.
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Read MoreToday through Sunday (May 17th), the first five to subscribe or resubscribe will get a free set of HFR coasters, custom designed by our Editor-in-Chief, Dana Diehl. The coasters are printed on a Vandercook in the Arizona State University printshop. Design features a Milky way print inside animal silhouettes. They’re perfect for setting an ice cold drink on this summer.
Read More“HTML”: THE ORIGIN STORY
It’s strange to mourn someone you’ve never met. The story isn’t about him, but the story exists because of him, because he died, because the circumstances of his death were so preposterous, and so in that sense you could say that “html” is an elegy for Aaron Swartz. I’d been planning to write an English/HTML hybrid for years, but the project kept getting postponed in favor of other stories, it was always next up, it was never the priority. And then Aaron died.
Read MoreIn the first part of this mini-series, I examined the narrative landscape of Immortal Technique’s “Dance With the Devil,” a Faustian tale of greed and violence. Continuing this theme, I want to examine a piece that is contemporaneous with “Dance With the Devil,” but occupies the opposite end of the hip-hop success spectrum. Where most outside the underground hip-hop scene haven’t been acquainted with Immortal Technique’s work, it’s hard to find someone alive in the U.S. (and indeed, much of the world) who hasn’t at least heard of Eminem. He’s the best-selling artist of the 2000’s, has won fifteen Grammy Awards, and is a mainstay in current popular culture. So, as is often is the question with print books, can material with mass appeal also be literary?
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