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West Branch 110, Winter 2026
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Collin Callahan, Victoria Chang, Regan Green, Bob Hicok, Dan Leach, Lexi Pelle, Emily Skaja, and Matthew Tuckner; Fiction by Siamak Voussoughi, Mehdi M. Kashani, … Read the rest
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West Branch 110, Winter 2026: Digital Issue
Poetry Christine GosnayThe Morning Emily SkajaIn the Bible BeltFigure 8 Matthew TucknerMounds and TrenchesBird in Space Translation Cho Ji Hoontr. Sekyo Nam HainesTemple … Read the rest
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Matthew Tuckner
Mounds and Trenches Robert Morris(Lithograph on Wove Paper)1969 The eye is a liar. Easily duped, the mind interposes memories onto the everlasting present moment. Each tree is hundreds … Read the rest
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Emily Skaja
In the Bible Belt everyone prays for you, especially if they don’t like you very much. As I understand it, praying for someone you don’t even like is worth more … Read the rest
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Cho Ji Hoon
Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines Temple Bell The way ripe fruits drop from branches, sounds of temple bell drop from empty space. Where sounds fall, they burst into light and … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Chris Boucher
“I was surprised and delighted to discover the uncanny links between these two stories, which almost seem to be in conversation with each other. Both, in my opinion, are concerned with storytelling and narrative itself—namely, with what a short story can contain and what it fails to.”
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“Do not turn yr face from this”: On the Poetry of Toby Martinez de las Rivas
“I offer this prelude on the torn, sprained bodies of poem and poet as an introduction to three books by Toby Martinez de las Rivas, whose religiously inflected poems are strenuous in the sense that they understand the work of poetry in terms of strain. Strain is one word for song.”
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Christine Gosnay
The Morning Lying still under a swift fan, I understand significance. By a window you have also lain formless, in a warmth and in a passing rain. Categories line the … Read the rest
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West Branch 109, Fall 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Alissa M. Barr, Robin Walter, Danez Smith, Lex Orgera, Ian U. Lockaby, Laura Read, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes; Fiction by Joanna Pearson and Lisa Bubert; … Read the rest
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West Branch 109, Fall 2025: Digital Issue
Poetry Danez SmithDear Time Leila ChattiThe Thirtieth YearThe Moment When a Feeling Enters Nonfiction Kathryn NuernbergerWhat Is Past Guest Editor Tyler Mills:“Maybe Just a Little … Read the rest
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