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An Interview with Christine Barkley
“‘Wilded’ began as a conversation with other poems I had written, partially as a condemnation of common themes to which I found myself returning without any resolution.” Interview by Maddy Grieco.
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West Branch 108, Spring/Summer 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Christine Barkley, Patrycja Humienik, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Gary McDowell, Asa Drake, Sara Potocsny, Michael Dhyne, and McLeod Logue; Fiction by Nwanne Agwu and … Read the rest
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West Branch 108, Spring/Summer 2025: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Ni Los Perros Que Jamás Me Olvidaron, Ni Los Caballos, Ni Los Abrazos Que Me Dan Mis (#3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 25), by Edison … Read the rest
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Christine Barkley
Lacunae The road back was the straight and the six-lane wide and the unending even at the skyline. The exit was ceremonial; to pass on not an option. To stay… Read the rest
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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
“I am proud to highlight translation’s vital role in connecting readers to these global voices, a practice deserving far greater recognition in the English-speaking world. After all, only through translation do these voices become ‘global.'”
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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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