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Laura Sackton
21 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, I Confront Mary Oliver’s Ghost in the Middle of a Genocide I ask her if she’s picked any flowers today, and what… Read the rest
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Devon Halliday
Work Experience In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Rose Facchini
Translation Selections My journey with these remarkable translators feels like a chain reaction—each encounter led almost seamlessly to the next, woven together by a narrative of shared passions and creative … Read the rest
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Benjamin Aleshire
Pastoral on the Invention of Screaming Two mice in the traps this morning— One of them with just a paw in the trap’s maw— Do I really have to tell … Read the rest
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Victoria María Castells
Ode to Palm Tree They are so skinny and tilted and giving and unbroken. Tipsy nightclub curve, tropical bones of our festive dirt. Thrashed by storm. Under hurricane they whip … Read the rest
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Composing Wonder
by Chelsea Christine Hill The Fears, by Kevin Prufer. Copper Canyon Press, 83 pp., $17.Helen of Troy, 1993, by Maria Zoccola. Scribner Books, 96 pp., $18.A … Read the rest
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The Peculiar Particular
by Laura Villareal Divination With a Human Heart Attached, by Emily Stoddard. Game Over Books, 72 pp., $18.Fabulosa by Karen Rigby. Jackleg Press, 62 pp., $18.Tripas by … Read the rest
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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 … Read the rest
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West Branch 107, Winter 2025: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Running Wild, by Gregory Rick (2022); mixed media on canvas, 5’ x 7’. In the collection of Enrique Chagoya. Poetry Yongyu ChenListeningImpasseRoyal Entombment… Read the rest
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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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