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From the Editor: August 2021
When Chet’la Sebree and Andrew Ciotola wrote me to ask if I’d serve as acting editor for 2021-2022, I answered immediately. Yes. I have served as an associate editor for … Read the rest
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West Branch 96, Spring/Summer 2021: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Take a Hike, by Michael Alvarez (2014); oil, spray paint, and pencil on panel; 80” x 97” Fiction Selections by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Introduction by Guest Editor … Read the rest
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West Branch 96, Spring/Summer 2021
In This Print Issue Michael Alvarez, Jesse L. Anderson, Shane Castle, Catherine-Esther Cowie, Christian Detisch, Lara Egger, April Freely, Ashley Hand, Kathleen Heil, Aaron McCollough, Ellene Glenn Moore, Andrés Mauricio … Read the rest
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Megan Neville
Elegy with Apologies to Leon Jakobovits James Six feet away a girl asks do I know a term for saying a word until it loses ground, becomes a different thing … Read the rest
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Document(s)
I chose “Document(s)” as a topic during a time of uncertainty— during an era of dis/misinformation, as the 2020 election approached, with ongoing civil unrest and police brutality, in the middle of an ever-evolving pandemic.
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Protactile Poetry
One of the outcomes I expect from the enterprise of translating American Sign Language poetry into English is that it would disappoint many readers.
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Christopher Citro
If Alone Has a Flavor Some sort of tinned fish. Check. Udon noodles ready in five minutes. Check. The peanut oil. Yes. Sesame seeds shaken like snow. Oh, yes. And … Read the rest
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin Introduces Kristina Kay Robinson, Emilie Staat Strong, and Ran Walker
I met Emilie Staat Strong in a coffee shop around 2008. I was writing a short story, and she noticed the stack of craft books on my table. “You’re a writer,” she said. I said I was, and she said she was too.
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Corey Van Landingham
Spectral FeelingsScope and Scale in Three New Books Foreign Bodies, by Kimiko Hahn. W.W. Norton & Co., 109 pp., $26.95. The Book of Jane, by Jennifer Habel. University of … Read the rest
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Leslie Sainz
What Breaks ThroughFour Collections on Awe A Common Name for Everything, by Sarah Wolfson. Green Writers Press, 80 pp., $14.95. Stray Harbor, by Rage Hezekiah. Finishing Line Press, 71 pp., … Read the rest
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