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Christian Detisch
American ElegiesSummer Snow, by Robert Hass. Ecco, 192 pp., $16.99. American Faith, by Maya C. Popa. Sarabande Books, 96 pp., $15.95. In the Lateness of the World, by … Read the rest
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From the Editor: May 2021
As my ten years as editor of West Branch draw to a close, I’m thinking much about the gatekeeping role of any editor. This gatekeeping quality is irreducible: the power to choose which voices to present, which voices to decline.
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West Branch 95, Winter 2021: Digital Issue
Cover Art: The Continuity of Surfaces (Four Things That Will Not Come Back), by Justyn Hegreberg (2019), mixed media on paper, 9.5″ x 7″ Poetry Selections by Sabrina Orah … Read the rest
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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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