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Christine Barkley
Lacunae The road back was the straight and the six-lane wide and the unending even at the skyline. The exit was ceremonial; to pass on not an option. To stay… Read the rest
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Laura Sackton
21 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, I Confront Mary Oliver’s Ghost in the Middle of a Genocide I ask her if she’s picked any flowers today, and what… Read the rest
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Devon Halliday
Work Experience In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Rose Facchini
“I am proud to highlight translation’s vital role in connecting readers to these global voices, a practice deserving far greater recognition in the English-speaking world. After all, only through translation do these voices become ‘global.'”
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Benjamin Aleshire
Pastoral on the Invention of Screaming Two mice in the traps this morning— One of them with just a paw in the trap’s maw— Do I really have to tell … Read the rest
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Victoria María Castells
Ode to Palm Tree They are so skinny and tilted and giving and unbroken. Tipsy nightclub curve, tropical bones of our festive dirt. Thrashed by storm. Under hurricane they whip … Read the rest
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Composing Wonder
by Chelsea Christine Hill The Fears, by Kevin Prufer. Copper Canyon Press, 83 pp., $17.Helen of Troy, 1993, by Maria Zoccola. Scribner Books, 96 pp., $18.A … Read the rest
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The Peculiar Particular
“The three collections I’ve chosen satisfy my desire for specificity. They lean into the peculiar particular and press on the pulse of language that reminds us that there is more wonder to be found in our world. ” Laura Villareal on Emily Stoddard, Karen Rigby, and Brandom Som.
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West Branch 107, Winter 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Mag Gabbert, Yamini Pathak, Emma De Lisle, Hannah Nahar, Amanda Roth, Kalyani Allums, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Bejamin Gucciardi; Fiction by Devon Halliday, Lisa Horiuchi … Read the rest
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West Branch 107, Winter 2025: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Running Wild, by Gregory Rick (2022); mixed media on canvas, 5’ x 7’. In the collection of Enrique Chagoya. Poetry Yongyu ChenListeningImpasseRoyal Entombment… Read the rest
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