Today is the final day to subscribe or resubscribe and receive four sneak preview proof pages of Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 56! Sample or back issues will also receive three proof pages, so no matter what you order, you can be among the first to see the material forthcoming in HFR. Be sure to place your orders now!
Read More2015 winner of the Miller Williams poetry prize from the University of Arkansas Press, George David Clark’s Reveille, rings in each poetic section with a reveille, or a wake-up call. Clark defines and creates his own meaning for this term—the title Reveille creates a “call” for the rest of the book, transporting the reader into the author’s painterly world of “a lattice musics,” “a bathing suit red as tomatoes,” “the gloss of lacquered walnut golds and olives jigsaw,” and “the holy face plum-colored.” Clark uses touches of color to guide the reader through this imaginary world that borders on the holy, and the first section opens with “Reveille on a Silent Whistle,” with its angelic imagery of “Two seraphs in the live oak’s highest boughs are sleeping,/constructing minutely their crystalline fretwork.”
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Day is sooooo last week—but our subscription drive is still going strong! We still have proofs to give out, and you could be so lucky, as long as you subscribe or resubscribe. Or, if you’re feeling lucky but your pot of gold isn’t quite as full, feel free to buy a single sample or back issue and get three rather than four pages from the proofs of Issue 56, before anyone else gets a chance to see it! The offer ends this Tuesday, March 24th.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDon’t let the St. Patrick’s day spirit end! Follow your good luck all the way to the end of the rainbow! To receive three “leaves” from our upcoming Issue 56, purchase of a sample or back issue today! Feeling lucky? Get four “leaves” with a subscription or resubscription! The offer will last exactly a week, so be sure to order before March 24th to get a sneak preview of our proofs!
Read MoreStarting this Tuesday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day) if you subscribe or resubscribe, we’ll send you a lucky Four-Leaf Clover: four pages from the proof of our upcoming issue. That’s right—you’ll be able to view what we’re working on right now, before anyone else. Buying a sample or back issue will get you three pages, but everyone knows the Four-Leaf Clovers are the lucky ones, so be sure to subscribe before the offer ends next Tuesday (March 24)!
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