West Branch 89, Winter 2019: Digital Issue

Cover art: Nothing Touches Bruce Wayne, by Taylor Anton White, acrylic, oil, charcoal, spray paint, colored pencil, airbrush, paper, and stitching on canvas, 58″ x 65″

Poetry

  • Intro by Guest Editor Diane Seuss
  • Jane Huffman
    Of Habit
    Sestina, Spiraling
    Chasteness, A Gesture
  • Justin Danzy
    You will not surely die
    Everything is smoke, Soloman says
    I’ve walked many miles in wrong belief

Fiction

The Back of the Book

  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Authors of Our Own Unknowns: Self-Invention in Women’s Poetry,
    on Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, and Shayla Lawson
    By Raena Shirali
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Poetics of Whiteness
    on William Brewer, Matthew Dickman, Sean Thomas Dougherty, and Emily Van Kley
    By Christopher Kempf
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Three Takes
    on Analacia Sotelo
    By Shara Lessley, Raena Shirali, and Corey Van Landingham

Features