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Electing Myth
“Not only were there none of the clever or crass puns I had envisaged, there wasn’t even a real Donald Trump. American politics, it appeared, had become too absurd even for Halloween.” — Corey Van Landingham
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Benjamin Gucciardi
In Defense of Sadness Sadness is not the same as sorrow, melancholy, woe or despair. Sadness is sweeter than its synonyms. When Issa writes, this dewdrop world is but a … Read the rest
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C.B. Anderson
The Tide, the Milky Way, You 1 The storm brings heavy rain and wind so strong the house shudders. The tide surges onto the road. Another record high. By morning … Read the rest
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Additions to the World
“Can art be the nail, hammered into the present, on which the future might be hung? … The three collections reviewed here all have their own answers to such questions.” — Lloyd Wallace
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West Branch 105, Spring/Summer 2024:
Digital IssueCover Art: Electric Forest, by Lydia Baker (2021); colored pencil on paper, 26″ x 40″Courtesy of the artist and Massey Klein Gallery, New York Poetry Madeleine Bazil… Read the rest
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West Branch 105, Spring/Summer 2024
In this Print Issue: Rasha Abdulhadi, David Bachmann, Rebecca Cohen, Bryce Emley, Constance Hansen, Jill Jones, Abbie Kiefer, Stephanie Kirby, Joana Liu, JoAnna Novak, Abraham Steel, Ashley Warner, and Jim … Read the rest
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An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
“I wanted to write a story about a young man who self-isolates and lives vicariously through his comic book character … As I fleshed out the character of Darwin, themes about power dynamics (whose experience is seen and unseen) came out more significantly.”
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Ji Hyun Joo
Chubby Asian Superhero It’s the summer of 2010. Darwin is eighteen years old. There’s hope for change.Freshly emerged from high school, the lower part of his face is currently … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian: Nonfiction Selections
“We often treat landscapes and other species as replaceable, interchangeable—a tree is a tree is a tree … Each of these four essays involve different stories of encounters with trees, and each is told very differently.”
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