West Branch

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

Guest Editor’s Note

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize) and Rocket Fantastic. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and co-curates the digital maker's space Voluble.

An Interview with Nathan Oates

Nathan Oates's collection of stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. His stories have been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories (2008 & 2012), The 75th Anniversary Issue of The Antioch Review, Forty Stories, and elsewhere.
Self Image #28 (detail), by Johnny Plastini, monoprint from handmade ink on Rivers BFK, 42" X 48"

This Digital Issue:

West Branch 87, Spring/Summer 2018

Poetry
Maya Phillips
Margaret Ronda

Fiction
Cara Blue Adams
LaTanya McQueen
Sehrish Ranjha

Reviews and Marginalia

Cover Art
Self Image #28 [detail], by Johnny Plastini, monoprint from handmade ink on Rivers BFK, 42″ X 48″

In This Digital Issue

Issue 87, Spring/Summer 2018

Poetry

Johnny Plastini

Self Image #28, by Johnny Plastini, monoprint from handmade ink on Rivers BFK, 42″ X 48″

  • Intro by Guest Editor Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • Maya Phillips
    The Woman
    Sometimes my father is a roaming hunger
    In Which My Mother and Father Meet for Brunch After His Death
    And/Or
    Of Late
  • Margaret Ronda
    Book of Months
    Thirty-Ninth Month
    Premonition
    Apple Cake
    Book of Hours

Fiction

The Back of the Book

  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Lateral Radical: On Jorie Graham
    Kylan Rice
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Stuff of Legend: On D. Nurkse, Sina Queyras, and Nicole Sealey
    Will Schutt

Features

Bucknell University

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