© 2020 West Trade Review
Vol. 13, Winter 2022



Poetry

CAROLINE MILLER | Another Amelia Earhart Conspiracy Theory

ZACHERY NOAH RAHN | Gas Station Boys

JAMES KANGAS| Moonlight

LAUREN FINKLE | Queering the Sonnet 

RUTH BARDON| Eclipse

AMANDA LEAL | America

LAUREN ENDICOTT | Mama Snake Love on Vinyl

MARIO DUARTE | Love Starts

BAILEY QUINN| Generational Trauma

THEA MATTHEWS| Hands Down

JULIE DEBOER|The First Stage of Grief is Denial

ROBERT FILLMAN| What I Was Told About Being a Man

LARRY NARRON | "Woodpushers"

GEORGE WITTE | Trestle Jumping

ZAYNAB BOBI| Mama, fire. a s he s

THEADORA SIRANIAN | When You Come In, You're in For Good

TERRY BELEW | "Wish List After Using a 3D Printer"

ZACHARY DANKERT | Love Expressed as a Seed

JEN KARETNICK | Pretzel

FATIMA SHAHID| In Jhelum

ROBERT WOOD LYNN | After All the Unpleasantness, Arms Have Something to Say for Themselves




Visual Poetics



















Fiction

JESSICA LEEDER| The Pines

LILLIE FRANKS | The Prophet

EMILY HESSNEY LYNCH | It's Perfectly Normal






Creative Nonfiction​

MIKAYLA SCHUTT | Notes for Young Composers

LISSA BATISTA| Dreaming in Brazil






Novel Excerpts

EVAN JAMES SHELDON | You Can Trace Us Back to Adam

STACEY ROBERTSON | Holy Crap



Book Reviews

THOMAS JOHNSON | Looking to Belong: Heritage and Freedom in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

CORRINE WATSON | "Folklore with a Chilling Bite: Generational Trauma and the Pitfalls of Greed in Bora  
                                            Chung's Cursed Bunny"

JOANNA ACEVEDO | "A Storm To Dance In: Review of Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On"

TARA FRIEDMAN| "Light and Learning in the Dark World of Rin Usami’s Idol, Burning"















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"Hands Down" (written and read by Thea Matthews; video edited by Sarah Edmonds)