West Branch

a thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews

Diane Seuss: Guest Editor’s Note

Diane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl(2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998).

An Interview with Leslie Harrison

Leslie Harrison's second book, The Book of Endings (U of Akron, 2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Her first book, Displacement (Mariner, 2009) won the Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A former Roth Resident at Bucknell, she has recent poems in West Branch, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Orion and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore.

Nothing Touches Bruce Wayne (detail), by Taylor Anton White, acrylic, oil, charcoal, spray paint, colored pencil, airbrush, paper, and stitching on canvas, 58″x65″

This Digital Issue:

West Branch 89, Winter 2019

Poetry
Jane Huffman
Justin Danzy

Fiction
Jonathan Vatner
Jenny Xie

Book Reviews by Raena Shirali and Christopher Kempf, and Three Takes on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin by Shara Lessley, Raena Shirali, and Corey Van Landingham

In This Digital Issue

Poetry

Nothing Touches Bruce Wayne, by Taylor Anton White, acrylic, oil, charcoal, spray paint, colored pencil, airbrush, paper, and stitching on canvas, 58″ x 65″

  • Intro by Guest Editor Diane Seuss
  • Jane Huffman
    Of Habit
    Sestina, Spiraling
    Chasteness, A Gesture
  • Justin Danzy
    You will not surely die
    Everything is smoke, Soloman says
    I’ve walked many miles in wrong belief

Fiction

The Back of the Book

  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Authors of Our Own Unknowns: Self-Invention in Women’s Poetry,
    on Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, and Shayla Lawson
    By Raena Shirali
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Poetics of Whiteness
    on William Brewer, Matthew Dickman, Sean Thomas Dougherty, and Emily Van Kley
    By Christopher Kempf
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Three Takes
    on Analicia Sotelo
    By Shara Lessley, Raena Shirali, and Corey Van Landingham

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