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Tamas Panitz
Within a Secret Cloud Where to grow my orchid that will last for a thousand years … big decisions take many tiny minds– like Dracula in his den my persecutors … Read the rest
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Jessica Guzman
Post-Storm Assessment I spray X on my front door. I set the table, plastic on plastic, secured by stone. Two days after the hurricane, I grill freezer burned flanks … Read the rest
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Conor Bracken
Firstborn A day after the afterbirth’s been rubbed off your head (“like a coconut with injured sentience,” dark-haired and howling) we call you Everett, which means, we learn, brave as … Read the rest
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West Branch 98, Winter 2022
In This Print Issue: Katie Berta, Kym Cunningham, Katy Didden, Ann Hudson, Dana Kroos, Alexis Lathem, Vanessa Navarette, Greg Nicholl, Nome Emeka Patrick, Juan Carlos Reyes, Esteban Rodríguez, Lucy Schiller, … Read the rest
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An Interview with Donika Kelly
“Greek mythology was the primary and intuitive way that I understood power within family relationships.”
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West Branch 98, Winter 2022: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Grand Gesture, by Vanessa Navarrete (2020); digital, 5906 x 7087 pixels. Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature Introduction by Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín Cassandra … Read the rest
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Brett Hanley
Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar This place is a metaphor for my dysthymia. If everything beautiful is born of wreck, then take me to the salvage yard of my affect. I … Read the rest
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Katie Berta
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria ChangOBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17 In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we wake slightly altered, … Read the rest
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Esteban Rodríguez
In Praise of HerenessTwice Alive, by Forrest Gander. New Directions, 96 pp., $16.95.Strip, by Jessica Abughattas. University of Arkansas Press, 75 pp., $16.95.I Thought There Would Be More Wolves… Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
Stepping onto the Stage: Ambition and Risk in Three DebutsAll Heathens, by Marianne Chan. Sarabande Books, 74 pp., $15.95.Field Music, by Alexandria Hall. Ecco, 77 pp., $16.99.Bodega, by Su Hwang. Milkweed Editions, 94 … Read the rest
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