This issue features fiction by Michael Nath, Annie Bashaw, and Shannon Savvas; poetry by Richard Blanco, Luke Johnson, jason b. crawford, Tamara Panici, Joshua Nguyen, and Nik Moore; CNF by Athena Dixon, Lisa Knopp, and Elizabeth Gonzalez James; visual art by Patrick Dougher; interviews with Richard Blanco, Athena Dixon, and Michael Nath.
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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Latest Video Poem
"[Take the gravel underneath my feet]" by Alan May
We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series. "[Take the gravel underneath my feet]" is written and read by Alan May. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.
May's poem appears in the Winter 2023 collection of Online Exclusives
We want work that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important to teach us--something that readers really need to know, but might not have understood this was a need until the last word of the work. Details here.
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Special Themed Section Spring 2025 Print
West Trade Review invites submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid work for an upcoming issue with a special section on the theme of Ecstasy in all its forms. Send us what sends you.
West Trade Review seeks poems that somehow engage with the intersection of social identity and nature/environment/place. Specifically, 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.