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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events … but with the history of verse itself.”
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Tara Isabel Zambrano
Our Sons Wrote, Glorious Days Are About To ComeCW: Conflict Zone Violence After guerilla training in the mountains, our sons came back with machine guns and grenades, their cheeks soft-grizzled, their gaze scorched like Siachen glacier in sunlight, … Read the rest
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Nick Sabolik
Before We Stopped Speaking; EnoughBefore We Stopped Speaking I once watched my friend fall from a height of thirty stories and live. Well, not live, but you know what I mean. At first I … Read the rest
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Alison Braid
CarpetThe widower paid for the abortion, but he wouldn’t come with her. Olive called Susannah from the clinic after it was all over. Olive spoke into the phone and then … Read the rest
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Survival Songs
By David Roderick Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122 … Read the rest
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Marginalia: Chet’la Sebree, Andrew Ciotola, Ron Tanner, G.C. Waldrep
The Sum of Trifles, by Julia Ridley Smith. University of Georgia Press, 238 pp., $22.95. Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir-in-essays, The Sum of Trifles, begins with an invitation from her … Read the rest
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West Branch 99, Spring/Summer 2022: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Mental Narratives Series: Girl, enjoy the now, by Laura Villarreal (2019); acrylic, embroidery, and thread on linen, 28”x21.”Courtesy of RT Curated Collection. Poetry Jessica GuzmanPost-Storm … Read the rest
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Katie Condon
Who Here Has Heard of Ether? The meadow was like a child, hip-height and wild. The moths had no hope for holding onto any shadow, let alone their own, which … Read the rest
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Elane Kim
Transit I want more small kindnesses: glass stained in every direction, the windows stacked tall, a looping stop. Pick a side already: the sky or the sea. More rain or … Read the rest
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West Branch 99, Spring/Summer 2022
In This Print Issue: Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, Anjali Enjeti, Patrick Madden, Kristine Mahler, Molly Mccully Brown, Rachel Richardson, David Roderick, A. Mauricio Ruiz, C.T. Salazar, Nafis Shafizadeh, Molly Spencer, Claudia … Read the rest
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