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Humor in Self-Deception
by Thomas Calder Good Women, by by Halle Hill. Hub City Press, 216 pp., $17.95. “Seeking Arrangements,” the opening story in Halle Hill’s debut collection, Good Women, … Read the rest
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West Branch 106, Fall 2024
In this Print Issue: Jo Bear, Elizabeth Bolton, Heather Christle, Ji Hyun Joo, Jasmine Khaliq, Jaye Kranz, Max Kruger-Dull, Christina Sun, Daniel Uncapher, Marianne Villaneuva, and Chrisophter Warner; Emily Lu … Read the rest
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West Branch 106, Fall 2024: <br> Digital Issue
Cover Art: All the Moonlight (a chart of all the moonlight in Brooklyn in 2014), by Amber Heaton (2015); etching, 22” x 30.” Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: … Read the rest
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An Interview with Daniel Uncapher
“But then, because my father becomes more of a thread to this piece, it’s also a bit of a warning: be careful with people stuff, because it’s not clear how it always goes in the end.”
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To Name and Be Named
by Felicia Zamora The Quiet Practices, by TC Tolbert. Beloit Poetry Journal, 54 pp., $18. The capaciousness of we. TC Tolbert’s newest poetry collection, The Quiet Practices, the … Read the rest
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Electing Myth
“Not only were there none of the clever or crass puns I had envisaged, there wasn’t even a real Donald Trump. American politics, it appeared, had become too absurd even for Halloween.” — Corey Van Landingham
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Benjamin Gucciardi
In Defense of Sadness Sadness is not the same as sorrow, melancholy, woe or despair. Sadness is sweeter than its synonyms. When Issa writes, this dewdrop world is but a … Read the rest
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C.B. Anderson
The Tide, the Milky Way, You 1 The storm brings heavy rain and wind so strong the house shudders. The tide surges onto the road. Another record high. By morning … Read the rest
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Additions to the World
“Can art be the nail, hammered into the present, on which the future might be hung? … The three collections reviewed here all have their own answers to such questions.” — Lloyd Wallace
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