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West Branch 107, Winter 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Mag Gabbert, Yamini Pathak, Emma De Lisle, Hannah Nahar, Amanda Roth, Kalyani Allums, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Bejamin Gucciardi; Fiction by Devon Halliday, Lisa Horiuchi and L. Annette Binder; CNF by Kimberly Grey and Matt Barrett; “This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective” on Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s Song, with contributions…
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kelly’s hermetic temperament and fable-like staging feel tethered not to a particular era, but to the larger through-line of lyric poetry. Her engagement with the human and animal world remains as timeless as her interests in moral negotiations and neglect, and the limitations of attentiveness and self-awareness …”
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Guest Editor Saba Keramati
“Lately I have been considering poetry’s role in society—specifically, in the future society I want to live in: radical society, abolitionist society, society without empire and oppression, society in which all peoples have their needs met. ”
This Issue
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Cover Art: Running Wild, by Gregory Rick (2022); mixed media on canvas, 5’ x 7’. In the collection of Enrique Chagoya.
Poetry
- Yongyu Chen
Listening
Impasse
Royal Entombment
Translation
- Hendri Yulius Wijaya
tr. Edward Gunawan
Muscle Mary
Be Grateful - Moikom Zeqo
tr. Wayne Miller
The Empty Tomb of Christ
The Back of the Book
- This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s SONG (1995)
David Baker, Amit Majmudar, Gabrielle Bates, and C. Dale Young, edited by Shara Lessley - Book Review
“But Something Stayed With Us”: On the Spare
on Esther Lin and Jessica Fisher
by Corey Van Landinghan - Book Review
Humor in Self-Deception
on Halle Hill
by Thomas Calder
Guest Editor Saba Keramati:
A Special Poetry Feature- Editor’s Introduction
- Summer Farah
The Angels Are Falling
Amalgamation of Waters
On Having a Gemini Sun & Venus - Ariana Benson
Classical Conditioning
What, Unmade, Resists Repair
Prey Drive - Stephanie Choi
Maiden Voyage
Interview
Wing Sun Fong’s Ghost Watches Titanic (1997) - Threa Almontaser
so i take a walk
we grilled girls - Jake Rose
Ecology
Silhouette
Afterglow
- Yongyu Chen