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West Branch 105, Spring/Summer 2024:
Digital IssueCover Art: Electric Forest, by Lydia Baker (2021); colored pencil on paper, 26″ x 40″Courtesy of the artist and Massey Klein Gallery, New York Poetry Madeleine Bazil… Read the rest
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West Branch 105, Spring/Summer 2024
In this Print Issue: Rasha Abdulhadi, David Bachmann, Rebecca Cohen, Bryce Emley, Constance Hansen, Jill Jones, Abbie Kiefer, Stephanie Kirby, Joana Liu, JoAnna Novak, Abraham Steel, Ashley Warner, and Jim … Read the rest
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An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
“I wanted to write a story about a young man who self-isolates and lives vicariously through his comic book character … As I fleshed out the character of Darwin, themes about power dynamics (whose experience is seen and unseen) came out more significantly.”
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Ji Hyun Joo
Chubby Asian Superhero It’s the summer of 2010. Darwin is eighteen years old. There’s hope for change.Freshly emerged from high school, the lower part of his face is currently … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian: Nonficton Selections
“We often treat landscapes and other species as replaceable, interchangeable—a tree is a tree is a tree … Each of these four essays involve different stories of encounters with trees, and each is told very differently.”
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Lloyd Wallace
Human LimitationsPublic Abstract, by Jane Huffman. American Poetry Review, 196 pp., $16. Jane Huffman’s Public Abstract, selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman Award, begins with … Read the rest
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New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets
“In work that is witty, subversive, socially conscious, and distinct, these poets navigate intimate subjects such as childbirth and the shock of motherhood, bereavement, rapture, environmental crisis, queer desire, art-making, and selfhood.”
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Madeleine Bazil
Short Film (I) Pleasure is cold fruit, the choice to eat it. See me, aperture wide, that I appear to be sprawled across the quaternary, elaborately a part of the … Read the rest
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Saba Keramati
Ace of Cups Tonight I asked the cards whether we should have children and pulled five strands of water to hold. Will you say yes? And I want to— There … Read the rest
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Patrick Dundon
Into the Iron I was born onto a mirror. For a moment, there were two of me: the one crying, and the one who only looked like he was. The … Read the rest
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