-
Gabriel Palacios
Just Dangling:Michael Earl Craig and the Art of Defusing a Poem Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, by Michael Earl Craig. Wave Books, 122 pp., $22. Two years ago at the AWP book … Read the rest
-
West Branch 92, Winter 2020: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Reckoning (2017), by Cate White, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, glitter, collage on canvas, 45” x 65” Fiction Intro by Guest Editor Laura van den Berg Lillian Huang … Read the rest
-
West Branch 92, Winter 2020
Aria Misher Aber, Hasan Alizadeh, Sarah Blackman, Charlie Clark, Anaïs Duplan, Michael Estes, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Kathleen Hellen, Catherine Imbriglio, Lesley Jenike, Niall Munro, Kathryn Nuernberger, Gabriel Palacios, Colin Pope, … Read the rest
-
This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
On Alice Oswald’s Dart, edited by Shara Lessley, featuring Niall Munro, Aria Misher Aber and Yvonne Reddick.
-
Sarah Mangold
Painting Understands Its Scientific Aspirations (for Hilma af Klint) your eyes animal blue maniac law black to light a superstition I might render to a small point flowers … Read the rest
-
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
anaesthesia for the Eve in my bloodline // or how to tame an earthworm for auntie funmi leave your beak behind today. let the early bird lie peacefully in her … Read the rest
-
Introduction by Laura van den Berg
Here is, for me, a sign of a memorable short story: there is at least one sentence I can’t stop thinking about. Just a few words and yet a deep … Read the rest
-
Case Q. Kerns
Protected LandMy share of the morsel should have lasted for at least a week or two keeping me nice and steady— two or three days if I really wanted to … Read the rest
-
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
-
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
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews