Lizzie Borden and the Forty Whacks:
Notes on a Rhyme
Lizzie1 Borden2 took3 an axe4
- Lizzie Andrew Borden was her full given name. Not Elizabeth, not
Gabriella R. Tallmadge
alberto
I didn’t know him more than once,
won’t purse my lips to say you.
So I’ll say what I did when I showered him with my breasts,
when
Jonathan Vatner
Jonathan Vatner is the author of the novel Carnegie Hill, debuting in August 2019 from Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. His stories have been published in Confrontation, The Rag, The Westchester Review, the Best Gay Stories anthology, and other journals. His journalism can be found in numerous publications including Poets & Writers, The New York Times, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and he is the staff writer for Hue, the magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology. He lives in Yonkers, New York, with his husband and cats.
Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie is a writer based in Oakland, California. Her work has appeared in journals like AGNI, Ninth Letter, and The Offing, and has won awards from Devil's Lake, Narrative Magazine, Joyland, and the Best of the Net Anthology. She’s received a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Aspen Words. She is the Executive Editor of Dwell.com.
Jane Huffman
Jane Huffman has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, where she is currently an instructor for the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, a literary journal. Twitter @janechuffman
Justin Danzy
Justin Danzy is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis where he is completing his MFA. He has work forthcoming in Guesthouse and The New Guard Review. Danzy is from Southfield, Michigan.
West Branch 88, Fall 2018: Digital Issue
Fiction
- Intro by Guest Editor Matt Bell
- Sarah Norek
A Whale, a tree, a vine - Kate Wyer
Excerpts from Girl, Cow, Monk
Poetry
- Daniel Moysaenko
Matryoshka - Kirsten Ihns
i wanted
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan’s latest collection isSycamore/em>(Milkweed Editions, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the Director of Creative Writing and the MFA Program at The Ohio State University.
