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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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