© 2020 West Trade Review
Vol. 14, Summer 2023



Poetry

MELISSA MCKINSTRY | My Love, Increase My Belwilderment

KATHERINE MOONEY BROOKS | Elegy for Tommy Mooney

REMI RECCHIA | My Brother Died

ANNA GIRGENTI | Litany of Secrets

MICKIE KENNEDY| Chronology of the Closet

CASSANDRA WHITAKER | I am the Wolf's Unending Meal

EZRA SUN | Hong-Shao Pork in an Earthen Pot

MICHAEL BEARD | Proximity

A.E. WYNTER | Poem with an Absent Father

TAYLOR NICOLE S. | [woman on the grass]

PHIL GOLDSTEIN | What I Hold Onto of You

SHELIA BLACK| Time's Arrow

SHILO NIZIOLEK | Illness as Epithalmium

AEKTA KHUBCHANDANI | Things you heard while growing up or How to prepare for a funeral

SHIRA HAUS| The Salt Histories

FATIHAH QUADRI ENIOLA | Portrayal of Bodies in Lockdown

MOLLIE O'LEARY | Landing in Tromsø

ERIN WILSON | The Last Blue Heron

KIMBERLY ANN PRIEST | Solunar Theory

PAUL ILECHKO| The Receding Arc

MIHIR BELLAMKONDA | The Dinner Party




Visual Poetics


















Fiction

CORLEY LONGMIRE| No Good Grief






Creative Nonfiction​

SHANA GRAHAM | Divorce Season

NICOLE DESJARDINS GOWDY| Sedimentary

KAYLA JESSOP | Time Lapse for Grief





Novel Excerpts

EVE ODOM | Where the Otters Play



Book Reviews

MARY SUTTON | Eating Bitter and Sweet: A Review of Ina Cariño’s Feast

MELISSA GOODNIGHT | From Cringing to Coping: The Seamless Fusion of Self-deprecating Humor and Emotional 
                                                   Depth in Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile 

CLAIRE JUSSEL | “Who Are You Walking Among My Rib Bones?”: The Interconnectedness of Time and Family in 
                                     Lighsey Darst’s the heiress / ghost acres 

ALLISA CHERRY| Women Becoming Holy: Transformation and Return in Vandana Khanna's Burning Like Her Own 
                                         Planet

DIANE JOSEFOWICZ | Fragmentation and Inheritance in Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall​'s Tauhou






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