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Lillian Cummins
FirstHot, dry Friday night, late September in Texas. Callie, Mina, and Emma get ready for the football game. Constrained during the week by the plaid skirts and button-down shirts of … Read the rest
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West Branch 91, Fall 2019
Taneum Bambrick, Levi Bentley, Marianne Boruch, Brandon Jordan Brown, Tim Carrier, Casa, Yongyu Chen , R. M. Haines, P. Hanson, Gabriel Houck, Ben Jackson, Shara Lessley, Perry Lopez, Kevin Mclellan, … Read the rest
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West Branch 91, Fall 2019: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Santa Cruz River (2017), by P. Hanson, acrylic, charcoal, transfer on panel, 24″ x 24″ Poetry Intro by Guest Editor Brian Teare jasper avery American Sonnet Blanche Brown… Read the rest
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Kelsey Peterson
Elin, with PliersElin, with pliers, pulled an old nail from the floor of the deck. She had cut her heel on the nail the day before; there was no blood, but it … Read the rest
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Jake Zucker
Two RobberiesThey found themselves standing over a burglar in Cape Cod, attacking him, crouched over his body like football players in the foyer of the beach house they’d rented for their … Read the rest
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Our Kind Multiplies: Duality and the Lyric
Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry Double Portrait, by Brittany Perham. W.W. Norton & Company, 80 pp., $26.95. Witch Wife, by Kiki Petrosino. Sarabande, 60 pp., … Read the rest
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Levi Bentley
Tuneful, Flirtatious, DyspepticOf Mongrelitude, by Julian Talamentez Brolaski. Wave Books, 112 pp., $18. Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s Of Mongrelitude scraps with language, rolls in the dirt of it, smells every smell, however … Read the rest
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Joohyun Kim
Floridad I gave grist to animals while your sermons Piled high against the tide. When struggle Stirred your anger, I hung letters from the world’s ceiling. Hung myself by my … Read the rest
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Zan de Parry
The Origin of Surfing when the great ocean stood her water fell off and made the ocean when the ocean stood her water fell off and made the great lake… Read the rest
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jasper avery
jasper avery is a poet currently based in Philadelphia. her debut poetry collection, number one earth, won the 2017 Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. her poetry has appeared in ALPHA, The Puritan, and fields mag, and was shown at the Man-Made Disaster Exhibition in London in April of 2019. she tweets @saguarohugger.
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