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Nur Turkmani
My Sister’s Manfrom West Branch 104 Print Issue My sister is a serial dater. This year alone, a dozen lovers nested around her apartment like cheap furniture, taking up space and accumulating … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Amanda Sarasien:
A Translation Portfolio“Think of this compendium as merely a curation of a curation, a small but tantalizing window onto the world.”
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
To Be Self-EvidentAfter Edward Said Every empire tells its subjects a story of revelation. The trees let down their aging leaves, listless in late drought. The children thrive on filtration, their classroom … Read the rest
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Rasha Abdulhadi
That Nation Talktalk abolition, talk transformation talk justice talk justice talk just us making for each other cause no one else is coming talk breakfast, talk leban, talk coffee talk tea tell … Read the rest
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Traci Brimhall
Memento MoriIt has no hands or numbers, but the gold clock shows the hours, minutes, and seconds as slits of light. On top of the disk, a monstrous locust that grinds … Read the rest
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Keene Carter
Nature and the CityTrace Evidence, by Charif Shanahan. Tin House Books, 112 pp., $16.95.To 2040, by Jorie Graham. Copper Canyon Press, 88 pp., $25.Vexations, by Annelyse Gelman. University of … Read the rest
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Juliana Gray
Lizzie Borden and the Forty Whacks:Notes on a Rhyme Lizzie1 Borden2 took3 an axe4 Lizzie Andrew Borden was her full given name. Not Elizabeth, not … Read the rest
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An Interview with Daniel Torday
By Kyra DeVoe Daniel Torday is the author of The 12th Commandment, The Flight of Poxl West, and Boomer1. A two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award … Read the rest
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West Branch 103, Fall 2023: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Math Homework, by Kaylie Kaitschuck (2022); yarn embroidery on felt, 18”x24” Guest Editor Susan Nguyen: A Special Feature Introduction by Guest Editor Susan Nguyen Chelsea B. DesAutels… Read the rest
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Amelia Ada
Like It Or NotPunks, by John Keene. The Song Cave, 234 pp., $20.Eggtooth, by Jesse Nathan. Unbound Edition Press, 136.pp, $24.An Eros Encyclopedia, by Rachel James. Wendy’s Subway, … Read the rest
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