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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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Alexandria Pulliam
“Trust in the future in your loneliness” — G.E. Patterson regardless of care we who love/d short we who desire/d let ourselves be led by a thing of distance of … Read the rest
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Tiana Wilson
Sonnet for My Music Preference My artist search history on Tidal is something like Beyonce, Ella Mai, Kehlani, 2 Chainz … As if I’m looking for a song to fit … Read the rest
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Introduction by Brian Teare
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.
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Corey Van Landingham
The Anti-Phenomenal: Three New BooksCorey Van Landingham, a contributing editor, is the author of Antidote and the recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati and a book review editor for Kenyon Review.
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From The Editor: June 2019
Dear Friends, Readers, and Submitters: Thank you for supporting West Branch this year! We’ve now completed our reading for the year—and responded to every single submission in our queue. For … Read the rest
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews