Richard Downing
Richard Downing has received awards/recognition from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, New Delta Review, New Woman Magazine, Juked, Split This Rock, Boston Review, Gemini, Firewheel Press, Press 53, Concrete Wolf, Ashland Press, Colorado Review, and Solstice. His work appears in journals and anthologies such as Arts & Letters, Dire Elegies, and Prime Number. He holds a PhD in English and is an activist concerned with systemic racism, income equality, and fostering dogs. Richard recommends Feeding Tampa Bay.
“Englishman. Jamaican man. What’s the fucking difference? He is what he is. You’ve seen him, I’ve seen him. Bottom line—he just sounds weird. Uppity, better than the rest of us with that whatever-the-hell-it-is accent.”
Recent Articles:
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with John Wall Barger
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Gerald Fleming
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Martine Bellen
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Gloria Mindock
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Marc Vincenz
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Laura Mattingly
Hanging Loose, Rigorous, and Unlikely Stories in Seattle
with Joanna Fuhrman
Chinese Mary in Tuscaloosa • Brodsky's Cat
by Chengru He
Homecoming at the WRC
by Stacey C. Johnson
War Story
by Chris Klassen
"How We All Miss the Near Miss," "End of the World, the One You Missed" and "Widower in the Park"
by John Grey
"Pending" and "Top Floor"
by Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
Amerikkkan Cannibals, or (Askew-ed World Order)
by henry 7. reneau, jr.
"Running Against the Yous of Water," "The Gym Vs Lazaro Hill Vs The Idiom," and "Pocket Man/ Pocket Vampire/ Homme de Poches"
by Darryl / Dadou / Baron Wawa
My Homeless Neighbor
by Zary Fekete
That Time Elon Lost His Mind
by Stephenson Muret
Nineteen Paintings, May 2023
by Sara Madandar
"Do Not Watch The Handmaid's Tale, and Other Advice for Expectant Mothers," "The Crick in My Neck from the Weight on My Mind," and "A Rhyming Romp with Nietzsche"
by Shannon Frost Greenstein
The Guitar
by Dominic Rivron
Georgy Girl
by Ben Umayam
Road Kill
by Kim Carson Bodie
Lady of the Tunnels
by Erica Leslie Weidner
"Variation In Terrain," "The Opposite Of Prophecy," and "Not In My Periphery You Don't"
by Heikki Huotari
Unlikely Saints, February 2023
with Matthew Hupert, Alex Jennings, Brad Richard and Cate Root
Unlikely Saints, December 2022
with Nikki Ummel, Izzy Oneiric, Briana Augustus, and Jonathan Penton
"The Dictator's Inbox" and "The Artist"
by Michael Harold
Ransom
by Peter Cherches
"An Abecedarian for Election Days (Past, Present, and Future)" and "A Collection of Election-Themed Haiku / Gathered like Fall Leaves"
by Jen Schneider
"The Fire" and "You already don't exist anymore"
by Ivan de Monbrison
Hunters and Gatherers
by Casey Bush
Jimmy Grant
by Robert Leo Heilman
"One Becomes," "Ascent," and "The Distance"
by Bob Heman
"Learning to Suffer," "Forced Intentions," and "Counting"
by E. Martin Pedersen
Minister of World Affairs
by Kadambari Kaul
New Foundland (from Colonial Mud)
by Stephen Nelson
Goliath
by James Koehler Jr.