“I asked a few poets from these spaces to send me work and this folio is the result of that request. As I read what they sent me, a theme emerged. Each poem that reached out toward me was a site of longing.”
In This Digital Issue
West Branch 97, Fall 2021
Guest Editor Joy Priest: A Special Feature
- Introduction by Guest Editor Joy Priest
- Antony Fangary
Teckle - Francisco Márquez
Fire Island - Aris Kian
Under Construction - Erin L. McCoy
when we are found we will be fused - Marissa Davis
Spillage
Ghosts in the Archive
- Introduction by Jennifer Loyd
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Amsa Gives the Journalists a Tour of Yarmouk
Beit Anya - Jane Wong
Overgrown - Amanda Hodes
Maris Callas Interviews Harriet Smithson Berlioz
Maria Callas Interviews Hildegard von Bingen - Josh English
Hypothesis - Vi Khi Nao
Excipere - Ginger Ko
Delta - Jessica Jacobs
Covenant Between the Pieces
How Many More
Another Kind - Sumita Chakraborty
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Poetry
- Gabriella R. Tallmadge
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Creative Nonfiction
- Jehanne Dubrow
You Must Stumble
The Back of the Book
- BOOK REVIEW
Against Paradise
on Peter O’Leary, Arthur Sze, and Toby Martinez de las Rivas
By Kylan Rice - BOOK REVIEW
Private Poems, Public Language; Public Poems, Private Language
on Hafizah Geter, Aaron Fagan, and Henri Cole
By Christian Detisch - THIS LONG WINDING LINE: A POETRY RETROSPECTIVE
Remembering Ai’s Killing Floor, edited by Shara Lessley
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Shivanee Ramlochan, and Danielle Cadena Deulen
Features
- Joy Priest, Poetry Selections
- Ghosts in the Archive, edited by Jennifer Loyd
- Remembering Ai’s Killing Floor, edited by Shara Lessley
