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West Branch 102, Spring/Summer 2023
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 … Read the rest
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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 …”
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West Branch 102, Spring/Summer 2023: Digital Issue
Cover art: More Work Ahead, “Hope Work Series,” by Raul Rene Gonzalez (2010); ballpoint pen, acrylic, spray paint, marker, paper on masonite, 18″ x 36″ Guest Editor Juan Martinez: … Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
“Stay With Me”: A Review, and a Case for DifficultyCanopy, 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. W.W. Norton & … Read the rest
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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.”
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Michelle go-un Lee
menagerieRead Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction Mom says they are going on a vacation, just the two of them, but Henry knows it isn’t because they are packing in the … Read the rest
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Matthew Lloyd Richardson
4 Oxtail DinnerRead Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction Puckett started to pick up his cane, then left it where it lay as a gesture of faith. Down the elevator, out of the … Read the rest
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Mike Prask
BurnpileRead Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction The medevac choppers usually stopped coming when the snow vanished in spring. The ski resort behind us was rundown — the lift towers, the … Read the rest
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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 … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Juan Martinez: A Special Feature
“What ties these three stories together is that they’re so fantastic at threading the needle between family and the familiar and disaster.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews