Issue 86, Winter 2018: Digital Issue

West Branch Issue 86

Cover art: Stick and poke (detail), by Anna Wehrwein, 2016, oil on canvas, 60 x 66 in.

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews and Marginalia

  • ESSAY
    Something to Talk About: A Case for Negative Poetry Reviews
    Corey Van Landingham
  • SPLIT THE LARK: SHARA LESSLEY ON CONTEMPORARY POETS
    Some Memorials May Be Unstable: Elegy & the Absurd
    on Emily Berry
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Dull Jewels Reburied: Poetry of Place in Four Debuts by Women
    Raena Shirali reviews Tiana Clark, Claudia Cortese, Michelle Lin, and Shelley Wong
  • MARGINALIA
    Recommendations from our editors
    GC Waldrep on Khaled Mattawa and Johannes Göransson.
    Ron Tanner on Lisa Birnbaum.
    David Winter on Allison Pitinii Davis.

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