© 2020 West Trade Review
Vol. 14, Fall 2023



Poetry


DENISE DUHAMEL | Ask Anything

Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé| My Grandfather is a House

DAVID VILLAVERDE | Against Cynicism

UBONG JOHNSON | Dark-skinned Rainbow

LISA RUA-WARE | My Mother’s Myth

ROBYN GROTH | This Poem Will Be Sad If You Don't Read It, or Poem for My Spoon

GRANT CHEMIDLIN| Leather Bars

JASON B. CRAWFORD | Untitled 1975-86

AMY ALLEN | Gathering

CAROLINE PICKER | Stickney Brook, May 2022

ANDREW PAYTON| Pathology

NATALIE RICE | Ghost River

RANA TAHIR | Pulled Roots

ANNETTE SISSON | Woodlanders

JOEL PECKHAM, JR | Any Moonwalker Can Tell You (or, Earth to Joel)

J.P. HUBER | Turn the Music Off

EILEEN PETTYCREW | Fourth of July

CHRISTOPHER McCORMICK | Duplex With An Orchard In It

CLAIRE SCOTT | Strip Mall Christian Therapist

SHERREL McLAFFERTY | Division of Labor

LIZ FEMI | Summer Flight on a Golden Shovel

ZOE BOYER | The Longest Winter




Visual Poetics


















Fiction

SANA MUFTI| All Good Things Die On Tuesday



Creative Nonfiction​

MEGAN WILLIAMS | She Said

MADELINE PETERSON| Falls of Neuse





Interview


















Book Reviews

CLAIRE SUTTON | "You Do Not Dim": Corresponding with Memory, Place, and Time in Brynn Saito's Under a Future Sky

THOMAS JOHNSON | Capturing What Cannot Be Held: Fragments of Time in Landscapes by Christine Lai

HANNAH RYDER |Flowers, Fruit, and Self-Consciousness: Diane Williams Examines Life's Intricacies in I Hear You're Rich

MIKAL WIX | A Curated Artistry of Sonnets Elevates the Form in Mid/South Sonnets







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Ken Harmon Speaks with Poet Mickie Kennedy