© 2020 West Trade Review
Vol. 12, Winter 2021



Poetry

RACHAEL INCIARTE | eggshells

DARE WILLIAMS | A Painting, A Wonder

KATHERINE LEONARD| Snow Blind

NWENNA KAI| Cuts

ALLIA LIANG | Midas

DAWN TERPSTRA| Letter to Red Stilettos

BEN KLINE | Quantum Entanglement

KATHERINE DE LANCELLOTTI | We Ate the Fruit in Season

DELILAH DENNETT | Sky Swimming

GEORGE PERREAULT| a friend asks about loss

DANIELLE ZIPKIN | This virus never pushed me towards a purpose

M LEE| IF HAIR AND TWENTY NAILS KEEP GROWING

KEVIN BROWN| Role Playing

YOANA TOSHEVA | Dreaming, Leaving (Continuous Acts)

H.C. BENDING | funeral for small bones 

DAVID DIXON |Rainbow

BETHANY BOWMAN | Cassiopeia the Queen

SERENA ALAGAPPAN | Embruns

EMILY KHYM | Colorfully Homesick

BEN KLINE | Testament

BRANDON KILBOURNE | Erinnerung

MICAH RUELLE | Complex

DONTAY GIVENS | A POEM WHERE I USE THE N WORD (NIGGA SKIN CASTLE)

JORDAN CHARLTON | It Seems in America, Loving Yourself Means Forgetting History





Fiction
KATHERINE SERNA |Father's Day for Abandoned Children

L.A. CLARK | Tulum, 2001

CORLEY LONGMIRE | The Right Kind of Animal





Creative Nonfiction​
SPIKE WONG | Glazed

LAUREN SIEBEN | The Colonoscopy

KEVIN GRAUKE | Funeral Etiquette





Book Reviews
GIANNI WASHINGTON | "The Autonomy of Story:  The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki"

MARY SUTTON | "Home, Approximately: Ananda Lima’s Mother/land Contemplates Origins and What It Means to 
Belong"

D.W. WHITE | "An Honest Portrait: Place and Perspective in Claire Vaye Watkins’ I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness"

LAURA OHLMANN | "Shedding Grief With Such Color by Tracy K. Smith"










Interviews

Assistant Editor Kelly Harrison Speaks with Spike Wong


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