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Jeanne Larsen
Shadows Rippling on Bodhisattva Run 2 hundred thousand souls all still in a rush downstream from Hiroshima. Over the gorge, 5 bats wheel like the ones carved in a temple … Read the rest
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Julie Marie Wade
Largest mammal on Earth … Surely the man at the circus must have mentioned it as he lifted us into the howdah one by one. I was front rider in … Read the rest
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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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