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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.”
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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.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews