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West Branch 93, Spring/Summer 2020: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Anita (Rosenwald) (2018), by Chiffon Thomas, metal screen mesh, embroidery floss, and patent leather, 16” x 14” x 2” (40.6 x 35.6 x 5.1 cm) Poetry Intro… Read the rest
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West Branch 93, Spring/Summer 2020
George Abraham, Avraham Chalfi, Jeremy Michael Clark, Atar Hadari, Lauren Hilger. Janis Hubschman, Ted Kooser, Farah Marklevits, Elizabeth Powell, Kylan Rice, Cintia Santana, Marvin Shackelford, Samyak Shertok, Alix Anne Shaw, … Read the rest
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Carolyn Zaikowski
The WaterCarolyn Zaikowski is the author of the novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013.) Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, DIAGRAM, Huffington Post, and Everyday…
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Kathryn Nuernberger
The Poetics (and Politics) of SpellsAscend, Ascend, by Janaka Stucky. Third Man Books, 88 pp., $17.95A Sand Book, by Ariana Reines. Tin House Books, 323 pp., $24.95Without Protection, by Gala … Read the rest
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Hasan Alizadeh
Translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould & Kayvan Tahmasebian Old Testament, New Testament Perhaps in Isfahan or another city like Isfahan a woman— the most beautiful woman in the world— a … Read the rest
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An Interview with Claire Wahmanholm
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Night Vision (winner of the 2017 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest), Wilder (winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry) and Redmouth (Tinderbox Editions 2019).
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Andrés Reconco
La CreelMy mother was obsessed with soap operas and pan dulce. One day, after my photo shoot, I went to a panadería she likes. It’s a Cuban place with little sweet … Read the rest
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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
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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
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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