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West Branch 95, Winter 2021
In This Print Issue: Allison Field Bell, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jordan Charlton, M.A. Cowgill, Knar Gavin, Ross Gay, Melissa Ginsburg, Amy Gustine, Joe Gutierrez, Justyn Hegreberg, Philip Metres, Jenny Molberg, … Read the rest
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Naomi Kanakia
The Anti-Fascist“These days, all stories need to be adventure stories.”
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Kathryn Nuernberger
Building an Archive of Earth and Water“I have seen how a person who tells a story of racism carelessly only reinscribes it in the present. I have seen how ignoring the story altogether, as if the crime never happened, also carries it into the future.”
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An Interview with Amy Gustine
“Short stories are rarely about the moment of crisis. I think that’s because what happened is just a fact.”
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Jordan Charlton
Naming, Silencing, Surviving“It doesn’t take a reader long to be captured by Romeo Oriogun’s compelling voice, a voice which seems equal parts observer, prophet, and reformer …”
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Guest Editor: Sabrina Orah Mark
“Baugh and Scheckler are distinctly different poets but one thing they have at their center is the desire to heal by reaching all the way into the most wounded wound.”
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At the Gate: Poems of Friendship
“Poems, I think, are encounters: between image, volta, syntax, and other implements of craft, and between reader, speaker, and poet.”
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West Branch 94, Fall 2020: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Now Beat It (2018), by Julia J. Wolfe, acrylic on canvas, 24 in. x 23.5 in. Creative Nonfiction Intro by Guest Editor Hasanthika Sirisena Dionne IrvingNature … Read the rest
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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Carter Sickles
The Prettiest Star, by Carter Sickles. Hub City Press, 288 pp., $26.00. Carter Sickels’s second novel, The Prettiest Star, returns the reader to 1986, as the AIDs crisis … Read the rest
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West Branch 94, Fall 2020
C.J.A., Rennie Ament, Daniel Barnum, Katherine Berta, Alex Burchfield, Dan Chiasson, Hedgie Choi, Vanessa Cuti, Perry Janes, Alexis Lathem, M.G. Leibowitz, Luke Muyskens, Patty Nash, JoAnna Novak, Karl O’Hanlon, Amy … Read the rest
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