“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.”
In This Digital Issue
West Branch 95, Fall 2021
Poetry Selections by Sabrina Orah Mark
- Introduction by Guest Editor Sabrina Orah Mark
- Sarah M.C. Baugh
A Phrase I Misheard, Hallelujah
Another Name for Things
Grandfather Trip
I Found Horses - Samara Scheckler
I eat toast and read the news
Moment and Monument
Grandmothers
At the Gate: Poems of Friendship
- Introduction by Noah Baldino
- Diane Seuss
[There’ something to be said …]
[All at once David went catatonic …]
[After forty years of forced estrangement …] - Joe Gutierrez
Fingerbib - Yanyi
Home for the Holidays - Ross Gay & Rose Zinnia
We Tree Singers Free - Oliver Baez Bendorf
Stonewall Sestina
What the Dead Can Do
Poetry
- Christian Schegel
Michigan - A. Prevett
In the House of Absence
huskless
Elegy with Rough Sex and Leaf Blower
Fiction
- Naomi Kanakia
The Anti-Fascist
The Back of the Book
- BOOK REVIEW
Building an Archive of Earth and Water:
New Poetry That Excavates the Past to Imagine a Future
on Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Natalie Diaz, Tess Taylor, Kiki Petrosino, and Rick Barot
By Kathryn Nuernberger - BOOK REVIEW
Naming, Silencing, Surviving
on Romeo Oriogun
By Jordan Charlton
