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West Branch 95, Winter 2021: Digital Issue
Cover Art: The Continuity of Surfaces (Four Things That Will Not Come Back), by Justyn Hegreberg (2019), mixed media on paper, 9.5″ x 7″ Poetry Selections by Sabrina Orah … Read the rest
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West Branch 95, Winter 2021
In This Print Issue: Allison Field Bell, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jordan Charlton, M.A. Cowgill, Knar Gavin, Ross Gay, Melissa Ginsburg, Amy Gustine, Joe Gutierrez, Justyn Hegreberg, Philip Metres, Jenny Molberg, … Read the rest
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Naomi Kanakia
The Anti-Fascist“These days, all stories need to be adventure stories.”
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Kathryn Nuernberger
Building an Archive of Earth and Water“I have seen how a person who tells a story of racism carelessly only reinscribes it in the present. I have seen how ignoring the story altogether, as if the crime never happened, also carries it into the future.”
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An Interview with Amy Gustine
“Short stories are rarely about the moment of crisis. I think that’s because what happened is just a fact.”
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Jordan Charlton
Naming, Silencing, Surviving“It doesn’t take a reader long to be captured by Romeo Oriogun’s compelling voice, a voice which seems equal parts observer, prophet, and reformer …”
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Guest Editor: Sabrina Orah Mark
“Baugh and Scheckler are distinctly different poets but one thing they have at their center is the desire to heal by reaching all the way into the most wounded wound.”
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At the Gate: Poems of Friendship
“Poems, I think, are encounters: between image, volta, syntax, and other implements of craft, and between reader, speaker, and poet.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews