It always echoes back to me. You could call it a haunting. You could say ghosted. You can just as easily say that the same loneliness brimming through the old woman’s body brims and finally unfastens me as well.

When I started reciting these old stories with my elders, I felt the slimmest lump in the throat begin to take on a growing heft. These are some of my greatest memories as a mentee under my elders. And it was after the end of our roundtable discussions on the texts that we would begin to read aloud each word, each line, sense the warm touch of every glottal and stressed vowel. Every click of the tongue echoed a little more in my young indigenous, nimíipuu self.

Contributor SpotlightHaydens FerryApril 24, 2015Issue 54, Translation, International

Contributor Spotlight: T.N. Turner

Comments on Anti-Matter Diet & Being a Poet

Regarding me, or Anti-Matter Diet, I have little to say. Briefly, I looked back into my notes for Anti-Matter Diet. Started 5/8/2003 while driving to work, listening to lectures on particle physics. Completed 5/19/2003. Changed 10/28/2003, 5/2004. Finished again 6/2004, 8/2004, 9/2004, 6/2005, 10/2005. Changed 9/2008.

Contributor SpotlightHaydens FerryApril 24, 2015Issue 56, Chaos Issue, Chaos, Poetry

Behind the Masthead: Sue Hyon Bae

Our new International Editor, Sue Hyon Bae, discusses Mark Doty, Korean euphemisms, and the lack of seasons in the desert with intern Michael Cohen.

Michael Cohen: You’re the new International Editor at HFR—what does that title mean to you?

Sue Hyon Bae: Being constantly surprised, from the moment I accepted the position and every time I look at the queue and find a new amazing translation. I’d applied for poetry editor initially and was flattered but alarmed to be made international editor. It’s also a lot of responsibility; since we don’t have international readers, my fellow international editor Aria and I are solely in charge of choosing which translations to publish, without any third opinions.

Behind the Masthead, InterviewsHaydens FerryApril 22, 2015Issue 57, Sue Hyon Bae, Borderlands

Behind the Masthead: Dustin Pearson

Our new Managing Editor, Dustin Pearson, discusses adult-like things, sushi rice, and the most important thing he’s discovered since joining HFR (himself) with intern Michael Cohen.

Michael Cohen: You’re the new Managing Editor at HFR—what does that title mean to you?

Dustin Pearson: Well, right now it means doing all the correspondence between our contributors. So the way that our process works is: the genre editors, they’ll go through the material—after it’s been passed up from the first, second, and third readers—and they’ll go through it, basically decide which pieces that they want, and then they’ll accept the piece initially.

Behind the Masthead, InterviewsHaydens FerryApril 17, 2015Behind the Masthead, Dustin Pearson, Issue 57

I Got a Story to Tell: Narrative Techniques in Hip-Hop and Rap Music PART III

In this final installment of my brief exploration of literary hip-hop, I’d like to discuss one of the biggest names in the genre today: Kendrick Lamar. Lamar’s 2012 major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, was well received by fans and critics alike, and many of the album’s themes come to a head in one of the title tracks: “m.A.A.d. city.” Check out the audio here: And the lyrics here.

Haydens FerryApril 17, 2015I Got a Story to Tell, Narrative Techniques, hip-hop

Behind the Masthead: Kevin Lichty

Our new special projects editor, Kevin Lichty, discusses top secret plans, old radios, and Toy Fox Terriers.

Shelby Heinrich: Special projects editor sounds like a very interesting and important title. What exactly does this title entail?

Kevin Lichty: The special projects editor is job made and remade every year. Essentially, any idea that an editor has (as an individual or as a collective "editors") that falls outside of the traditional pages of HFR and everyone loves, it is the special project editors job to make that idea happen.

Hayden's Ferry Review: Issue 56, The Chaos Issue

The ancient Greeks saw Chaos as the dark abyss from which life sprang.
Mathematicians use Chaos theory to explain how small decisions can give rise to unexpectedly grave consequences.
Chaos is a cluttered bedroom, a busy street corner, a blinding snowstorm.
In Paradise Lost, John Milton described Chaos as “the vast immeasurable abyss, / Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild.”

AnnouncementsHaydens FerryApril 9, 2015

A Mini-Q&A with Molly Beckwith

This month, we're pleased to share Molly Beckwith's poem, "Dear Girl in the Cactus." You can read it in The Dock.

HFR: I love how this poem explores magical realism in its address to “you.” It speaks to the imagination of the girl and calls attention to the more quiet, realistic line: “In you mother’s circle you are the one / with bad breath, dirty fingernails, red stripes on your shoulders.” Can you speak a little about the pairing of this imagery? I am also interested in the inciting incident of the photograph and how the events begin to overlap in each stanza. Did you begin writing this poem with this incident or did it develop through revision, and did that influence the form?

InterviewsHaydens FerryApril 9, 2015

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This month, we're pleased to share Molly Beckwith's poem, "Dear Girl in the Cactus." You can read it in The Dock.