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Laura Villareal
On Colonialism and Climate CrisisMuse Found in a Colonized Body, by Yesenia Montilla. Four Way Books, 108pp., $17.95banana [ ], by Paul Hlava Ceballos. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 112, $18.00… Read the rest
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Slow Violence
“There are costs to our living on this small, terminable planet. Daily these costs bear down on each of us, but their severity, visibility, and immediacy depend on who and where one is in the world.”
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Brian Conn
GriffinI first became a banker as an alternative to suicide. Sometimes in life it is best to consider an alternative. It’s OK if you hate bankers, I hate them too, … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Susan Nguyen: A Special Feature
“I’ve been thinking and dreaming about the failures of language lately. How it has the power to make me feel small, to forget myself. This may sound strange coming from a writer and a poet – so often I talk about the possibilities of language.”
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West Branch 103, Fall 2023
In this Print Issue: Amelia Ada, Hajjar Baban, Ian Cappelli, Jane Donohue, Rachel Edelman, Natalie Eilbert, Sara Elkamel, Katarina Frostenson, Michael Garcia Bertrand, Juliana Gray, Myronn Hardy, Bradley Harmon. Jackson … Read the rest
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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.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews