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West Branch 88, Fall 2018
Christopher J. Adamson, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Daniel Borzutzky, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, René Char, Chen Chen, Duo Yu, Chekwube O. Danladi, Adam O. Davis, Kathy Fagan, Luke Hankins, Joel … Read the rest
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Welcome to the River: Queerness & Lineage
A special feature by David Winter, 2016-18 Stadler Associate Editor, with poetry and commentary from Oliver Baez Bendorf, Chen Chen, Kathy Fagan, Carl Phillips, and Rickey Laurentiis.
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West Branch 88, Fall 2018: Digital Issue
Cover art: Marigold Hotel, by Megan St. Clair, 2017, mixed media on wood panel 12” x 18” Fiction Intro by Guest Editor Matt Bell Sarah Norek A Whale, a … Read the rest
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Kirsten Ihns
Kirsten Ihns is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a Ph.D. student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow at the University of Chicago,where she studies texts that seem to want to be images. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Yalobusha Review, Sonora Review, The…
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Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Lambda Literary Award.
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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips’s most recent book of poems is Wild Is the Wind(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018).
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Chen Chen
Chen Chen is the author ofWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.
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Matt Bell: Guest Editor’s Note
Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall , among other titles. A native of Michigan, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State…
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Daniel Moysaenko
Daniel Moysaenko holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the author of the chapbook New Animal (H_NGM_N Books, 2015). Other work has appeared in Asymptote, The Journal, Oversound, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse Daily, The Volta, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a poetry PhD at Florida State University.
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Sarah Norek
A whale, a tree, a vineSarah Norek’s stories have appeared in The Cupboard, The Collagist, Juked, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Oregon.
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