In This Digital Issue

West Branch 96, Spring/Summer 2021

Fiction Selections by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

• Introduction by Guest Editor Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• Kristina Kay Robinson
  Dantòr
• Emilie Staat Strong
  His Neighbor’s Yard
• Ran Walker
  The Tunnel of Love

Document(s)

• Introduction by Laura Villareal
• Aremu Adebisi
  “ṢẸ́RẸ́: An Ode to Women
• Ariana Benson
  To Our United States
  tree n. [English]
• Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
  Mi Mami Talks to Her Plantas
• Jason B. Crawford
  The Art of Staying Alive
• Malcolm Friend
  Ode to Paper Transfers
• Joshua Garcia
  Faggot
• Bri Little
  For every tweet that reads “Black women will save America”
• Lucia LoTempio
  Iconographic
• Mark Maza
  Kundiman for Tondo: 1986
• Liam O’Brien
  Wrung Out of Sweet Trouble
  Found Stories
• Cynthia Parker-Ohene
  Grrrl Black in Kilmarnock
• Erin Slaughter
  Try Telling Yourself You Are Not Accountable to that Great Moth Time
• Sneha Subramanian Kanta
  Thesaurus of Beauty with Ghost
• Lisa Summe
  My grandfather dies of covid hours after I put my cat down
• Lucy Zhang
  Backspace

Protactile Poetry

• Introduction by Translator/Editor John Lee Clarke
• Patrick Graybill
  Memories
• Oscar Chacon
  The Lumberjack Story
• Rhonda Voight-Campbell
  Solace

Poetry

• Christopher Citro
  If Alone Has a Flavor
  Quartered Suns
  That’s Me When That’s You
• Megan Neville
  Elegy with Apologies to Leon Jakobovits James
  

The Back of the Book

• BOOK REVIEW
  Spectral Feelings: Scope and Scale in Three New Books
  on Kimiko Hahn, Jennifer Habel, and Rick Barot
  By Corey Van Landingham
• BOOK REVIEW
  What Breaks Through: Four Collections on Awe
  on Sarah Wolfson, Rage Hezekiah, Felicia Zamora, and Christopher Kondrich
  By Leslie Sainz
• BOOK REVIEW
  American Elegies
  on Robert Hass, Maya C. Popa, Carolyn Forché, and Reginald Dwayne Betts
  By Christian Detisch

Features

• Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Fiction Selections
• Document(s), edited by Laura Villareal
• Protactile Poetry, translated/edited by John Lee Clarke