Featured
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Psalms 38, 102, & 130
“We think this happened because the process of writing oneself into the predicament of the psalmist works only if the translator prioritizes affective utility over textual accuracy. In other words, she must ask the question: What are the psalms for?”
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Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry
“Much is made of beginnings and endings, the first line of a poem or its closing stanza. We see critical attention given to prize-winning debuts, collected bodies of work, and books published posthumously. But what about middles? The volta of the writing life, so to speak.”
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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.
This Issue:
West Branch 111 Spring/Summer 2026
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Poetry
- Maja Lukic
Encounters - Matthew Gellman
The Understudy
Fiction
- Kiran Kaur Saini
The Iteration of the Crow and the Worm
Fiction Translation
- Anita Harag
tr. Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess
The Name
Special Feature: Psalms
- Emma De Lisle, Talin Tahajian, and Sam Bailey
Psalms 38, 102, & 130
The Back of the Book
- Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poets
A Great Disturbance: Charting the Way Forward
on Molly Peacock, Danusha Laméris, and Rick Barot
- Essay: Understanding a Poem
By Mark Halliday
- Book Review: Republic Pressed by Thunder
on Patricia Smith
By Oak Morse
Cover Art: Line 33, by Nick McPhail (2018); oil on wood, 10” x 8.” Courtesy of the artist.
- Maja Lukic
