by Fairy Tale Review | Jun 27, 2017 | Interviews with Fairy Tale Authors
Mai Der Vang’s poems “A Mouth And Its Name” and “The Hour After Stars” appeared in The Mauve Issue. She speaks with poetry editor Jon Riccio about her debut collection Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), in addition to fairy tales, lists, and the aesthetics of...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jun 21, 2017 | From the Archives, Prose
The daughters wake for the first time on his front porch and he will never know where they come from. The first daughter hefinds is naked, trembling, and white as paper. She does not cry. When he picks her up she is so small it is like holding an egg that is larger...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jun 20, 2017 | Interviews with Fairy Tale Authors
Mercury Night In the midnight subway station, I see a heavily drunken man sitting on the dirty bench. He keeps on swinging and murmuring. I lost my tail in the shredder… my long tail… As he bends his body, trickles of glittering confetti spill out of...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jun 14, 2017 | From the Archives, Poetry
What can the unfortunate insect do if it is found wanting in weight? A pill-bug rolls into a bead of silent news. The damselfly can bend a petal back without leaving her mark. Trickster. There is a woman named Hao Fenglas who cupped soil to her lips for over seventy...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jun 13, 2017 | Pins & Needles
No. 54: Caroline Cabrera Q. I’m awed by your word pairings – “goat electrons” and “woolen periscopes” are a few that spring to mind. Why do the agrarian and the scientific make such compelling poem-mates? The agrarian and the scientific, to some extent, provide two...
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