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If You Like Sugar I’ll Like Sugar Too
West Branch is accepting submissions for an inaugural themed nonfiction folio edited by Feature Editor Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn to be published in its Spring/Summer 2027 issue. From the “white gold” of the Atlantic slave trade through ongoing farm subsidies, refined sucrose has had an undeniably far-reaching impact on American culture. Sugar appears not only…
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West Branch 110, Winter 2026
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Collin Callahan, Victoria Chang, Regan Green, Bob Hicok, Dan Leach, Lexi Pelle, Emily Skaja, and Matthew Tuckner; Fiction by Siamak Voussoughi, Mehdi M. Kashani, and Alyssa Quinn; Creative Nonfiction by Lesley Jenike, Allison Field Bell, and Hantian Zank; Melody Winkle translates Tim Krohn (German) The Back of the Book:…
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“Do not turn yr face from this”: On the Poetry of Toby Martinez de las Rivas
“I offer this prelude on the torn, sprained bodies of poem and poet as an introduction to three books by Toby Martinez de las Rivas, whose religiously inflected poems are strenuous in the sense that they understand the work of poetry in terms of strain. Strain is one word for song.”
This Issue:
West Branch 108, Spring/Summer 2025
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Poetry
- Christine Gosnay
The Morning - Emily Skaja
In the Bible Belt
Figure 8 - Matthew Tuckner
Mounds and Trenches
Bird in Space
Translation
- Cho Ji Hoon
tr. Sekyo Nam Haines
Temple Bell
Homage to a Plum Blossom
Guest Editor Chris Boucher:
Fiction Selections- Editor’s Introduction
- Beth Alvarado
Portrait #1 - David Ryan
And Now You Must See Me Here
The Back of the Book
Cover Art: Stitches, Colors, Patterns: Red, by Ekta Aggarwal (2023); scrap fabric sewn on khadi, 36″ x 36.”
- Christine Gosnay