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Jehanne Dubrow
You Must StumbleThe memorials are made of concrete and covered in brass. Each one is the size and shape of a small cobblestone, measuring 96 by 96 millimeters. They’re called stolpersteine in … Read the rest
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West Branch 97, Fall 2021: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Cleaning, by Sumire Skye Taniai (2019); graphite, acrylic gouache, colored pencil on yupo paper. Guest Editor Joy Priest: A Special Feature Introduction by Guest Editor Joy Priest… Read the rest
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Guest Editor Joy Priest: A Special Feature
“I asked a few poets from these spaces to send me work and this folio is the result of that request. As I read what they sent me, a theme emerged. Each poem that reached out toward me was a site of longing.”
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Gabriella R. Tallmadge
alberto I didn’t know him more than once, won’t purse my lips to say you. So I’ll say what I did when I showered him with my breasts, when … Read the rest
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Christian Detisch
Private Poems, Public Language; Public Poems, Private LanguageA Better Place Is Hard To Find, by Aaron Fagan. The Song Cave 84 pp., $17.95 Un-American, by Hafizah Geter, Wesleyan University Press, 104 pp., $10.78. Blizzard, by … Read the rest
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Ghosts in the Archive
“History devours the individual. One life at a time, it amalgamates individual voices into the maw of broad historical narratives.”
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Kylan Rice
Against ParadiseBlack Sun, by Toby Martinez de las Rivas. Faber & Faber, 72 pp., $15.92. The Glass Constellation, by Arthur Sze. Copper Canyon, 562 pp., $35. Earth is Best, by Peter … Read the rest
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An Interview with M.G. Leibowitz
“But this power to … communicate the full weight of a paradox, to ‘say’ in one stroke and “unsay” in the next—to me, that’s poetry at its best.”
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West Branch 97, Fall 2021
In This Print Issue Albert Abonado, Marianne Boruch, Ahsan Butt, Brittany Cavallaro, Sumita Chakraborty, S. Brook Corfman, Madeline Haze Curtis, Christian Detisch, Danielle Cadena Deulen, Josh English, Samantha Grenrock, Amanda … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Ai’s Killing Floor (1979) Edited by Shara Lessley I first read Ai’s poetry as an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine—or, rather, it read me. Read into my conscience, … Read the rest
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