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"Notes for Young Composers" by Mikayla Schutt
"Generational Trauma" by Bailey Quinn
"The Pines"
by Jessica Leeder
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Fiction
Poetry
Volume 13 Winter 2022 Edition
Available Now!
This issue features fiction by Emily Hessney Lynch, Jessica Leeder, and Emily Franks; poetry by Robert Wood Lynn, Thea Matthews, Jen Karetnick, Lauren Endicott, Fatima Shahid, Bailey Quinn, and Zaynab Bobi among others; Creative Nonfiction by Mikayla Schutt and Lissa Batista; Cover art by Milena Babić
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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Where Verse and Image Collide
"In Jhelum" by Fatima Shahid
We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series, "In Jhelum," written and read by Fatima Shahid. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.
Shahid's poem appears in the winter 2022 collection of Online Exclusives available in early December.
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BOOK REVIEW
"Light and Learning in the Dark World of Rin Usami’s Idol, Burning"
by Tara Friedman
""Maybe the antithesis to the great darkness and vast loneliness of social media is our willingness to be the light: to brighten the path of understanding to see shared humanity within ourselves and each other."
