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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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Brett Hanley
Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar This place is a metaphor for my dysthymia. If everything beautiful is born of wreck, then take me to the salvage yard of my affect. I … Read the rest
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Katie Berta
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria ChangOBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17 In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we wake slightly altered, … Read the rest
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Esteban Rodríguez
In Praise of HerenessTwice Alive, by Forrest Gander. New Directions, 96 pp., $16.95.Strip, by Jessica Abughattas. University of Arkansas Press, 75 pp., $16.95.I Thought There Would Be More Wolves… Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
Stepping onto the Stage: Ambition and Risk in Three DebutsAll Heathens, by Marianne Chan. Sarabande Books, 74 pp., $15.95.Field Music, by Alexandria Hall. Ecco, 77 pp., $16.99.Bodega, by Su Hwang. Milkweed Editions, 94 … Read the rest
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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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Patrick Thomas Henry
Seven Flock the Transom: From the Wire ReportsOn the morning that Chet Alpine publishes his list “Six Surprising Birds That Will Fuck You Up,” the editors of TrendWire email us about an impending financial crisis. “As you … Read the rest
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Jeanne Larsen
Shadows Rippling on Bodhisattva Run 2 hundred thousand souls all still in a rush downstream from Hiroshima. Over the gorge, 5 bats wheel like the ones carved in a temple … Read the rest
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Julie Marie Wade
Largest mammal on Earth … Surely the man at the circus must have mentioned it as he lifted us into the howdah one by one. I was front rider in … Read the rest
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