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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.”
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West Branch 101, Winter 2023: Digital Issue
Cover art: Cavern (Basement Oracles), by Jon Rollins (2017-20); acrylic, enamel, drawing ink, silkscreen ink, graphite, charcoal, and paper on canvas, 54″ x 42″ Guest Editor Shane McCrae: A … Read the rest
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West Branch 101, Winter 2023
In This Print Issue: Anna Badkhen, Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind, Bùi Minh Quốc, Matthew Byrne, Chen Du, Larry Flynn, J. R. Forman, Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, Nora Hickey, Chelsea Hill, Lisa Knopp, Christopher … Read the rest
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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28. For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
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Diego Lama
RebeccaTranslated by Rose Facchini I’m deeply in love. I’m very shy. I love Rebecca. I don’t dare tell her. I’ve written it on a piece of paper, but I dare … Read the rest
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