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"Notes for Young Composers" by Mikayla Schutt
"Bloodied My Favorite Turquoise Blue Kicks" by Rogan Kelly
"Twelve Fragments"
by Yennie Jun
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West Trade Review Prize for Poetry
$1000
Submissions Open April 15, 2023
Submit up to 3 poems and receive a copy of our Spring 2023 edition.
Contest judge: Robert Wood Lynn
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Fiction
Poetry
Volume 14 Spring 2023 Edition
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This issue features fiction by Emily Hall, Nick Gregorio, and Maria Alvarez among others; poetry by Robert Wood Lynn, Rogan Kelly, Kimberly Ann Priest and many more.; Creative Nonfiction by Hayley Notter, Lily Levin, and Katherine Grasso; Cover art and art insert by Nika Novich; Interviews with Maria Alavrez, Robert Wood Lynn, and Nika Novich
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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Latest Video Poem
"Mama Snake Love Sound on Vinyl" by Lauren Endicott
We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series, "Mama Snake Love Sound on Vinyl," written and read by Lauren Endicott. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.
Endicott's poem appears in the winter 2022 collection of Online Exclusives.
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We'd like to read poems that explore the relationship between place/environment/nature and gender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and/or social class.
Poets are encouraged to "go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write," as Rilke urged. Simply creatively explore these ideas and intersectional spaces to find what emerges.
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Two Debut WTR Writers, Annabelle Ulaka and Stephenjohn Holgate, Selected for 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers
Congratulations to both of our writers! We are immensely proud of you.
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BOOK REVIEW
"Violence and Domestication in Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates"
by Allisa Cherry
"Judas Goat is symphonic in its weaving of religion, sex, the animal kingdom, gendered expectations, the Deep South, a broken covenant between a mother and daughter, and, ultimately, love and marriage."
