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West Branch 109, Fall 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Alissa M. Barr, Robin Walter, Danez Smith, Lex Orgera, Ian U. Lockaby, Laura Read, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes; Fiction by Joanna Pearson and Lisa Bubert; Creative Nonfiction by Laura Gill and Anna Whiteside. The Back of the Book: Sarah D’Stair reviews Carolina Hotchandani, Cintia Santana, Courtney Bush, and Paul Killebrew.…
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Guest Editor Tyler Mills
“Taken together, these essays tell a story of the city, of the self, and of the art of nonfiction: what the ‘I’ can do with language while telling the story.”
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“Shaped Language Is Strangely Immortal”
“Indeed, the best poets recognize that language, like a single atom, must be ruptured in order to unbridle all the energies buried deep inside.” — Sarah D’Stair
This Issue:
West Branch 108, Spring/Summer 2025
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Poetry
- Danez Smith
Dear Time - Leila Chatti
The Thirtieth Year
The Moment When a Feeling Enters
Nonfiction
- Kathryn Nuernberger
What Is Past
Guest Editor Tyler Mills:
“Maybe Just a Little of That Light will Reflect On Us”:
Writing Los Angeles- Editor’s Introduction
- Lynn Melnick
California Dreamin’ - Barret Baumgart
LA: Stranger Than Fiction - Jessica Abughattas
California Gothic: An Altadena Story
The Back of the Book
- Book Review
“Shaped Language Is Strangely Immortal”
on Carolina Hotchandani, Cintia Santana, Courtney Bush, and Paul Killebrew
by Sarah D’Stair
Cover Art: Don’t Pass Me By, by Huê Thi Hoffmaster (2024); oil on canvas, 108” x 72.”
- Danez Smith