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Aram Mrjoian
The RangeOur son returned to the mountaintop dirt-stained and soaking wet, no backpack, his clothes torn with jagged maws of fabric, blond hair in a muddy clump. As he punched his … Read the rest
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Laura Villareal
Mythmaking in Three DebutsSwallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17. Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, by C.T. Salazar. … Read the rest
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West Branch 100, Fall 2022: Digital Issue
Cover Art: The Devil’s Dancers, by Jean-Pierre Villafañe (2021); oil on canvas, 36″ x 36″ Poetry Luci HuhnExplaining to My Nephews How the Lake Turned Over Kimberly Alidio… Read the rest
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Shara Lessley
One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)PerspectiveBrocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64 pp., $14.95.The Curious Thing, by Sandra … Read the rest
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West Branch 100, Fall 2022
In This Print Issue: Julia Chiapella, William Erickson, Beth Gylys, Dionne Irving, Gary Jackson, Aruni Kashyap, David Keplinger, Shara Lessley, Rosalie Moffett, Betsy Sholl, Chris Stuck, Daniel Torday, Jennifer Tseng, … Read the rest
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An Interview with Katy Didden
“But there’s a lot that’s disturbing in the world right now, and the more I quiet my mind, the more I can discern what matters.”
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S.J. Sindu Introduces Noah Farberman
“Noah Farberman’s work can make me laugh and break my heart at the same time. His ability to find and twist out comedy in unexpected situations continues to impress me. Farberman’s work gives readers a surreal mirror inside which we can find our most vulnerable selves.”
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Tomaž Šalamun
Translated by Matthew Moore Bava’s No Fun I had three sons and five daughters. They were chained up in the woods. Buddha passed them. He ate a plum. With his… Read the rest
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Kimberly Alidio
A dense field of sound, a relaxation, a reading of space an expansive internalization of projection in a room or on a street, a texture of internal-external perceptual activity, the … Read the rest
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James Swansbrough
Last Time we had to stretch her out flat on the living room ottoman & I had to straddle her chest with my legs to pin her arms at her … Read the rest