Here is, for me, a sign of a memorable short story: there is at least one sentence I can’t stop thinking about. Just a few words and yet a deep well of meaning is evoked; all I want to do is circle the edges and peer down into the depths, marveling. For Andrés Reconco’s “La […]
In This Digital Issue
West Branch 92, Winter 2020: Digital Issue
Fiction
- Intro by Guest Editor Laura van den Berg
- Lillian Huang Cummins
First - Andrés Reconco
La Creel - Case Q. Kerns
Protected Land
Poetry
- O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
anaesthesia for the Eve in my bloodline - Sarah Mangold
Painting Understands Its Scientific Aspirations
As No Color Can Be Considered Stationery
[Dear Hilma,]
[Dear Hilma,]
The Contiguous Edges Perform in the Phenomenon - Brent House
Augur of Quinary
Translation
- Hasah Alizadeh, tr. Rebecca Ruth Gould & Kayvan Tahmasebian
Old Testament, New Testament
Matthew 9:24
John 12:24
Terraces
The Back of the Book
- BOOK REVIEW
The Poetics (and Politics) of Spells
on Janaka Stucky, Ariana Reines, Gala Muuamolova, Faylita Hicks, and Kenji C. Liu
By Kathryn Nuernberger - BOOK REVIEW
Just Dangling: The Art of Defusing a Poem
on Michael Earl Craig
By Gabriel Palacios
This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
- On Dart, by Alice Oswald (2002)
Shara Lessley: Introduction
Niall Munru: Confluence
Aria Misha Aber: The Democracy of Water
Yvonne Reddick: A River Voyage
