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West Branch 108, Spring/Summer 2025: Digital Issue
Cover Art: Ni Los Perros Que Jamás Me Olvidaron, Ni Los Caballos, Ni Los Abrazos Que Me Dan Mis (#3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 25), by Edison Peñafiel (2023–24); acrylic on raw canvas, fabric, iron-on transfers, 45.25” x 55.5” each. Images courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani Gallery.
Poetry
- Victoria María Castells
Ode to Palm Tree
The Questioning of the Palms - Benjamin Aleshire
Pastoral on the Invention of Screaming - Laura Sackton
21 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, I Confront Mary Oliver’s Ghost in the Middle of a Genocide
Spring Body
Fiction
- Devon Halliday
Work Experience
Guest Editor Rose Facchini:
A Special Translation Feature- Editor’s Introduction
- Giacomo Cardaci
tr. Oonagh Stransky
Sugar and Tar - Elsa Gribinski
tr. Edward Gauvin
Ode to Jouy - Ainur Karim
tr. Slava Faybysh
“The Bully” from Who Will Marry You?
The Back of the Book
- Book Review
Composing Wonder
on Kevin Prufer, Maria Zoccola, and Laura Newbern
by Chelsea Christine Hill - Book Review
The Peculiar Particular
on Emily Stoddard, Karen Rigby, and Brandon Som
by Laura Villareal
- Victoria María Castells
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews