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West Branch 107, Winter 2025
In this Print Issue: Poetry by Mag Gabbert, Yamini Pathak, Emma De Lisle, Hannah Nahar, Amanda Roth, Kalyani Allums, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Bejamin Gucciardi; Fiction by Devon Halliday, Lisa Horiuchi … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kelly’s hermetic temperament and fable-like staging feel tethered not to a particular era, but to the larger through-line of lyric poetry. Her engagement with the human and animal world remains as timeless as her interests in moral negotiations and neglect, and the limitations of attentiveness and self-awareness …”
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Guest Editor Saba Keramati
“Lately I have been considering poetry’s role in society—specifically, in the future society I want to live in: radical society, abolitionist society, society without empire and oppression, society in which all peoples have their needs met. ”
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Corey Van Landingham on Reviewing:
An Interview“I was first drawn to writing book reviews seriously because I was looking for a new way to think.”
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Guest Editor Amanda Sarasien:
A Translation Portfolio“Think of this compendium as merely a curation of a curation, a small but tantalizing window onto the world.”
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An Interview with Albert Abonado
“I think of the white space in this poem like that, a place for the speaker to move the poem around, a place to disguise intent, to conceal an America that hides in the silences.”
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Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
“In the hands of Walker-Figueroa … enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment.”
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Guest Editor Shane McCrae: A Special Feature
“I think these four poets are among the best poets writing, and they represent three generations of poets … so together they cover a lot of chronological ground.”
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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.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews