Author: ciotola

  • Hendri Yulius Wijaya

    translated by Edward Gunawan Muscle Mary ma didn’t get mad when I told her I’m attracted to other men, on one condition: “most important is you don’t become the woman.”… Read the rest

  • Moikom Zeqo

    translated by Kleitia Zeqo and Wayne Miller The Empty Tomb of Christ In the early morning of June 7, 1089, from a high mountain that would later be called Mount … Read the rest

  • Guest Editor Saba Keramati

    Guest Editor Saba Keramati

    “Lately I have been considering poetry’s role in society—specifically, in the future society I want to live in: radical society, abolitionist society, society without empire and oppression, society in which all peoples have their needs met. ”

  • Yongyu Chen

    Listening Years of that poem with the horse coin stuck on the tongue to death… years of that poem on the wall & what distilled was appetite. | X … Read the rest

  • Humor in Self-Deception

    Humor in Self-Deception

    by Thomas Calder Good Women, by by Halle Hill. Hub City Press, 216 pp., $17.95. “Seeking Arrangements,” the opening story in Halle Hill’s debut collection, Good Women, … Read the rest

  • “But Something Stayed with Us”: On the Spare

    “But Something Stayed with Us”: On the Spare

    by Corey Van Landingham Cold Thief Place, by Esther Lin. Alice James Books, 65 pp., $24.95.Daywork, by Jessica Fisher. Milkweed Editions, 82 pp., $16. I It is … Read the rest

  • West Branch 106, Fall 2024

    West Branch 106, Fall 2024

    In this Print Issue: Jo Bear, Elizabeth Bolton, Heather Christle, Ji Hyun Joo, Jasmine Khaliq, Jaye Kranz, Max Kruger-Dull, Christina Sun, Daniel Uncapher, Marianne Villaneuva, and Chrisophter Warner; Emily Lu … Read the rest

  • West Branch 106, Fall 2024: Digital Issue

    Cover Art: All the Moonlight (a chart of all the moonlight in Brooklyn in 2014), by Amber Heaton (2015); etching, 22” x 30.” Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: … Read the rest

  • An Interview with Daniel Uncapher

    An Interview with Daniel Uncapher

    “But then, because my father becomes more of a thread to this piece, it’s also a bit of a warning: be careful with people stuff, because it’s not clear how it always goes in the end.”

  • To Name and Be Named

    by Felicia Zamora The Quiet Practices, by TC Tolbert. Beloit Poetry Journal, 54 pp., $18. The capaciousness of we. TC Tolbert’s newest poetry collection, The Quiet Practices, the … Read the rest