In This Print Issue:
Humberto Ak’abal, Nico Amador, Annette C. Boehm, Michael Bazzett, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Hayden Casey, Kwame Dawes, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Rigoberto González, Sarah Harshbarger, Korey Hurni, Ailish
West Branch 102, Spring/Summer 2023
Cover Art: Issue 102
An Interview with Gary Jackson
"I’ve read comic books since I was nine years old, and even as a child I understood that characters like The Uncanny X-men were intended to function as an allegory for race ..."
West Branch 102, Spring/Summer 2023: Digital Issue
Guest Editor Juan Martinez: A Special
… Read the rest“Stay With Me”: A Review, and a Case for Difficulty
Corey Van Landingham
Canopy, by Linda Gregerson. Mariner Books, 96 pp., $14.95.
Lion’s Paw, by Kathleen Peirce. Miami University Press, 78 pp., $20.
Best Barbarian, by Roger Reeves.
… Read the rest This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
"Soto’s work reminds us that the San Joaquin Valley remains a 'place of wonderment—yes, wonderment,' whose people are, among other things, complex, hard-working, faithful, imaginative, hopeful, caring, animated, cultured, enduring."
Michelle go-un Lee
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menagerie
Mom says they are going on a vacation, just the two of them, but Henry knows it isn’t because they are packing in … Read the rest
Matthew Lloyd Richardson
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#4 Oxtail Dinner
Puckett started to pick up his cane, then left it where it lay as a gesture of faith. Down the elevator, … Read the rest
Mike Prask
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Burnpile
The medevac choppers usually stopped coming when the snow vanished in spring. The ski resort behind us was rundown — the lift towers, … Read the rest
Felicia Zamora
Mujer Mala
after Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan”
after the May 3, 2022 Roe V. Wade Overturn Draft Leak
Let’s be clear :: my womb
