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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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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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An Interview with Donika Kelly
“Greek mythology was the primary and intuitive way that I understood power within family relationships.”
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Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature
“When West Branch invited me to be a guest editor, I told Josh I wanted the story if it was still free. This time, to my absolute delight, it was.”
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Guest Editor Joy Priest: A Special Feature
“I asked a few poets from these spaces to send me work and this folio is the result of that request. As I read what they sent me, a theme emerged. Each poem that reached out toward me was a site of longing.”
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Ghosts in the Archive
“History devours the individual. One life at a time, it amalgamates individual voices into the maw of broad historical narratives.”
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An Interview with M.G. Leibowitz
“But this power to … communicate the full weight of a paradox, to ‘say’ in one stroke and “unsay” in the next—to me, that’s poetry at its best.”
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Document(s)
I chose “Document(s)” as a topic during a time of uncertainty— during an era of dis/misinformation, as the 2020 election approached, with ongoing civil unrest and police brutality, in the middle of an ever-evolving pandemic.
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Protactile Poetry
One of the outcomes I expect from the enterprise of translating American Sign Language poetry into English is that it would disappoint many readers.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin Introduces Kristina Kay Robinson, Emilie Staat Strong, and Ran Walker
I met Emilie Staat Strong in a coffee shop around 2008. I was writing a short story, and she noticed the stack of craft books on my table. “You’re a writer,” she said. I said I was, and she said she was too.
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews