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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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Hendri Yulius Wijaya
translated by Edward Gunawan Muscle Mary ma didn’t get mad when I told her I’m attracted to other men, on one condition: “most important is you don’t become the woman.”… Read the rest
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Moikom Zeqo
translated by Kleitia Zeqo and Wayne Miller The Empty Tomb of Christ In the early morning of June 7, 1089, from a high mountain that would later be called Mount … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Saba Keramati
“Lately I have been considering poetry’s role in society—specifically, in the future society I want to live in: radical society, abolitionist society, society without empire and oppression, society in which all peoples have their needs met. ”
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Yongyu Chen
Listening Years of that poem with the horse coin stuck on the tongue to death… years of that poem on the wall & what distilled was appetite. | X … Read the rest
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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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“But Something Stayed with Us”: On the Spare
by Corey Van Landingham Cold Thief Place, by Esther Lin. Alice James Books, 65 pp., $24.95.Daywork, by Jessica Fisher. Milkweed Editions, 82 pp., $16. I It is … 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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