West Branch 99, Spring/Summer 2022: Digital Issue

Cover Art: Mental Narratives Series: Girl, enjoy the now, by Laura Villarreal (2019); acrylic, embroidery, and thread on linen, 28”x21.”
Courtesy of RT Curated Collection.

Poetry

  • Jessica Guzman
    Post-Storm Assessment
    Recycled & Recyclable
  • Katie Condon
    Who Here Has Heard of Ether
    Babies Laughing
  • Conor Bracken
    Firstborn
    Coco Chanel Was a Nazi Spy
    Afternoon Prayer
  • Tamas Panitz
    Within a Secret Cloud
    Further Reading
    The March Towards the North
  • Elane Kim
    Transit
    Duplex in San Francisco
    Corollary

Fiction

The Back of the Book

  • BOOK REVIEW
    Survival Songs
    on Rebecca Morgan Frank, Deborah Paredez, and Molly Spencer
    By David Roderick
  • THIS LONG WINDING LONG: A POETRY RETROSPECTIVE
    On Ellen Bryant Voigt’s KYRIE
    featuring Rachel Richardson, Molly McCully Brown, C.T. Salazar, and Molly Spencer
    Edited by Shara Lessley
  • MARGINALIA
    Recommendations from Our Editors
    Chet’la Sebree, G.C. Waldrep, Ron Tanner, Andrew Ciotola

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