Featured
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An Interview with Mehdi Kashani
“I believe that human emotions, pared down to their purest form, are widely legible across cultures. Jealousy, resentment, guilt aren’t bound by culture. The writer’s task is to clear away distractions and streamline those emotions.”
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“After admiring and studying [Phillips’s] work for more than two and a half decades, I believe In the Blood offers yet another layer of recognition: Phillips’s debut serving as the first indicator of his future as a commanding force in lyric poetry.” — Shara Lessley
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Javier Puche: Aphorisms
“Sleeping is dying in installments.”
This Issue:
West Branch 111 Spring/Summer 2026
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Poetry
- Chris Ketchum
Conception
Giovanni’s Voice
Taking You to Idaho - Malvika Jolly
What You Must Know First About Me
Fiction
- Julia Hou
The Goatherd - Zachary Tyler Vickers
They Called Him Macaroni
Translation: Aphorisms
- Javier Puche
tr. Steven Stewart
Aphorisms
The Back of the Book
- This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Carl Phillips’s IN THE BLOOD (1992)
James Allen Hall, Cate Lycurgus, Derrick Austin, and David Woo, edited by Shara Lessley
- Book Review
A Pebble, a Ball of Wool, a Curve of Steel:
Writing from the Beyond Human World
on Robert Macfarlane, Laura Morris, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong
by Kathryn Nuernberger
- Book Review
The Silence of the End
on Aaron Fagan
By Luke Dunne
Cover Art: Early Evening September Wyatt Mt., by Gregory Hennen (2024); gouache on paper, 8” x 8”
- Chris Ketchum
