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Malvika Jolly
What You Must Know First About Me I am first and foremost a girls’ girl and a poets’ poet. A daughter to all mothers, including fathers. A father to all … Read the rest
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A Pebble, a Ball of Wool, a Curve of Steel: Writing from the Beyond Human World
By Kathryn Nuernberger Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane. Norton, 384 pp., $19.99.The Age of Loneliness: Essays, by Laura Marris, Graywolf Press, 208 pp., $18.Theory of Water: … Read the rest
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An Interview with Mehdi Kashani
“I believe that human emotions, pared down to their purest form, are widely legible across cultures. Jealousy, resentment, guilt aren’t bound by culture. The writer’s task is to clear away distractions and streamline those emotions.”
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Mehdi Kashani
The Wedding of Leila and Hamid Cyrus Dusk is fading out the sun when Cyrus steps out of the banquet hall, struck by the clarity of the sky in this … Read the rest
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The Silence of the End
By Luke Dunne Atom and Void: Poems, by Aaron Fagan. Princeton University Press, 72 pp., $17.95. The first poem of Aaron Fagan’s I ever read, a sonnet called “Three … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“After admiring and studying [Phillips’s] work for more than two and a half decades, I believe IN THE BLOOD offers yet another layer of recognition: Phillips’s debut serving as the first indicator of his future as a commanding force in lyric poetry.” — Shara Lessley
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Chris Ketchum
Conception After, in the pigpen, my grandfather dropped a lit cigarette into the straw. They rushed the animals out as the roof went up in smoke, embers whirling in the … Read the rest
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Zachary Tyler Vickers
They Called Him Macaroni “… Some future historian will relate, with pleasures, & the latest posterity will read with wonder & admiration, how three hundred intrepid, rural sons of freedom…dare … Read the rest
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West Branch 112, Fall 2026
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Chloe Cook, Patricia Hooper, Carolina Hotchandani, Malvika Jolly, Chris Ketchum, Sara Mae, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, and Aspen Taylor. Fiction by Julia Hou, Erik Harper … Read the rest
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