West Wind Review 2013



West Wind Review 2013 now available!

Featuring work by Harold Abramowitz, Shane Allison, Clarissa Ames, Brian Ang, Rae Armantrout, Anselm Berrigan, Benjamin Bourlier, Arlo Brooks, James Brubaker, Marie Buck, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott, Lisa Cattrone, Tiffany Denman, Carly Eichhorn, Phil Estes & Andrew Terhune, Brad Flis, Kristen Gallagher, Drew Gardner, Spencer Golub & David Hancock, Anne Gorrick, Dan Gutstein, Zack Haber, Diana Hamilton, Gavin Hollingsworth, Paul Hoover, J. H. Johns, Jason Joyce, Josef Kaplan, Just Kibbe, Yume Kim, Sue Landers, Jason Lester, françois luong, Shawn Maddey, Matt Margo, Carl Martin, Adam J Maynard, Marcus Pactor, Jon Pearson, Vanessa Place, Lanny Quarles, Jessy Randall, Cory Rohr, Carl Schlachte, Barry Schwabsky, Tim Shaner, Murray Silverstein, Janey Smith, Rachel Springer, Sampson Starkweather, Jamey Strathman, Mark Stricker, Christina Strong & Mitch Highfill, Dawn Akemi Sueoka, Gary Sullivan, Nicole Taylor, J. Jean Teed & Sarah Cook, Jeff Tigchelaar, and Elisabeth Workman.


Rachel Springer
Does your tree have a leaf that’s simple? If foliage is a needle, there’s work, and then there’s work. There’s a peach, juicy and oh so cheap. I couldn’t help myself, I let you in, major projection, leaf entire … fingers unevenly balanced, palmately, pinnately. There’s a compound leaf, star shaped, angular. Ah, the major ashes, walnut, butternut, pecan, mulberry, sassafras! Sickle-shaped, lobed or unlobed. With If Yes, there’s grinding coffee, and there’s whoring. OR, OR, OR. Are all your needles linear? See teeth visible under lens. Look, two white lines. (What do they mean?) Whether you gesture here or there affects me, and how hard. Branches bear spur-like fascicles, tiny flowers. We are berrylike, bluish, toothed around the margins, smooth along the veins. We are elliptical, oblong, glaucous with bloomy cones. With suction cups, diamond cross-sections, what the fuck? If so, you probably have a larch. You probably have a cedar! If so, a juniper. A pine. You most probably have an elm.

Editor: Stephanie Wehe
Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad

208 pp.
$10.00 + $1.50 s&h

West Wind Review 2012


West Wind Review 2012 is now available!

Featuring

Scott Abels, Amanda Ackerman, Shane Allison, Bruce Andrews, Brian Ang, Rae Armantrout, Nathan Austin, Maurice Burford, Allen Edwin Butt, Susan Calvillo, Sylvia Chan, Heather Christle, Rita Dahl, Tiffany Denman, Heather Dubrow, Andrew Durbin, Phil Estes, Nava Fader, Farrah Field, Shaun Gannon, K. Lorraine Graham, Lauren Hilger, Sean Patrick Hill, Gavin Hollingsworth, Janis Butler Holm, Tiffany Denman, DJ Huppatz, Megan Kaminski, Jacqueline Kari,Adam Katz, Nicholas Katzban, Tao Lin, Patricia Lockwood, Travis Macdonald, Kendra Malone, Matt Margo, Adam J Maynard, Adam Moorad, Chris Moran, Eileen Myles, Mel Nichols, Jessy Randall, Megan Ronan, Jess Rowan, Sarah Sarai, Estee Schwartz, Jamie Sharpe, Ara Shirinyan, Jesse Tangen-Mills, Andrew Terhune, KC Wilder

Editor: Zeke Hudson
Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad

180 pp.
Now only $10.00 (+$1.00 s&h)

Bruce Andrews

Generous

when you can’t have it all / after all / finders keepers / we swallowed it / better stop /double-click / neon clit // between the not yet // & you promised / a could be heart / anybody // don’t you always want too much // turn in your freedom / & / or / stop inside time / teeter-totter // fill me up / iffy now / under oops // get used to no me // shut up about / in the nick of / action replay / it hurts to understand // signal lost / because I hope / shock the shock / any friends / I for I // hittin’ it / & quittin’ it // give me a hand / below the belt / without the world // careful what you wish for // trip to the penalty box // reshuffle & // the enemy of my enemy... is // home is your homicide // my brain is killing me // it wasn’t normal / nothing can not happen / your mouth is on // pinball time / nice fat target / synapse / twist-off / nothing matters




Submission Period Open for WWR 2013

Submissions are now being considered for West Wind Review 2013 (editor Stephanie Wehe). See guidelines on the right sidebar.

Lollapaganza 2012



The Third Annual West Wind Review/Emergent Forms LOLLAPAGANZA New Writing Festival


7–9pm Friday June 1 and 1–5pm Saturday June 2


Schneider Museum of Art
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR


featuring a mob of writers from nearby and all over, including Bobby Arellano, Allison Cobb, Tim Shaner, Jen Coleman, Craig Wright, Sue Landers, Bill Gholson, Meg Hurtado, Susan Calvillo, Kyle Peets, Sarah Cunningham, Rodney Koeneke, K. Silem Mohammad, Micah Freeman, Ryan Bradley, Zeke Hudson, and Steve Roggenbuck (list subject to sudden modification).

Friday, June 1st

7:00pm

Bobby Arellano
Jen Coleman
Tim Shaner
Ryan Bradley
Allison Cobb
Craig Wright
Sue Landers

8:00pm

Reception

Saturday, June 2nd

1:00pm

Musical performance by Arlo Brooks et al.
Bill Gholson
Kyle Peets
Susan Calvillo
Zeke Hudson
Steve Roggenbuck

2:30 pm

Cello Suite in G Minor by Brooke Michelle Robison

K. Silem Mohammad
Sarah Cunningham
Micah Freeman
Meg Hurtado
Rodney Koeneke

3:30pm

Reception




BIOS (more to come)




Bobby Arellano lives in Talent, Oregon and is faculty director of Emerging Media & Digital Arts at SOU. His groundbreaking hypertext novel Sunshine ’69 was published on the Web in 1996. His novels from Akashic Books include Fast Eddie, King of the BeesDon Dimaio of La Plata; the 2010 Edgar Award finalist Havana Lunar; and most recently,Curse the Names. He is also co-creator of Dead in Desemboque, a graphic novel by Counterpoint/Soft Skull.


Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, managed an independent children’s bookstore, and now splits his time between opening boxes and designing book covers. He is the author of three chapbooks and a story collection, Prize Winners(Artistically Declined Press). His debut novel, Code for Failure, was released in March by Black Coffee Press.

Susan Calvillo is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. Her poems have recently been published in Compass RoseGhost Town,The Davis Poetry Anthology, and Lumina.


Allison Cobb is the author of the books Born Two and Green-Wood, which the New York Times called “a gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.” She lives in Portland, Oregon, and received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission.


Jen Coleman is a Portland poet by way of NYC, DC, and before that MSP. She is co-curator of the Spare Room reading series in Portland, former co-editor of the literary magazine Pom2, and collaborator in the literary/visual art collective 13 Hats.


Sarah Cunningham has had work published recently in WTF PWMMy Name is MudPhantom Limb, and—in collaboration with Jess Rowan—inStolen Island.


Micah Freeman is from Cincinnati and lives in Nashville. His words somewhat recently appeared in A Loss of Attention and Out of Nothing.


Bill Gholson is a professor in Language, Literature, and Philosophy at SOU where he teaches nonfiction and rhetoric. He has written and published academic work on Kurt Vonnegut and pedagogy and has recently begun publishing essays online.


Meg Hurtado works in advertising. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Mary's College of California, where she studied with Brenda Hillman, Graham Foust, and Matthew Zapruder. She now lives in the beating heart of San Francisco. Her work has also appeared in Cannibal, POOL, and The Columbia Poetry Review.


Rodney Koeneke is the author of Musee MechaniqueRouge State, and a chapbook,Rules for Drinking Forties. He lives in Portland, OR.


Susan Landers is the author of 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel), Covers (O Books) and 248 mgs., a panic picnic (O Books). She was co-editor of Pom2, with Ethan Fugate, Allison Cobb, and Jen Coleman. Recent poems have appeared in Try and on the blog Elective Affinities. She lives in Brooklyn.


Brooke Michelle Robison is a student in the studio of Dr. Viktor Uzur at the Weber State University School of Music. She has performed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and elsewhere. She has also raised over $20,000 in donations for charities, and has been honored with many awards for her service work. Brooke graduates this fall with a BA in Music and a Bachelor of Integrated Studies in History, Philosophy and Anthropology. 


Steve Roggenbuck is a traveling bard. 666.


Tim Shaner’s work has recently appeared in Colorado Review(forthcoming), The Claudius AppWord for/WordJacket, and Shampoo. He curates A New Poetry Series in Eugene, Oregon.


Vincent Craig Wright lives in Ashland where he is the Fiction Writer at Southern Oregon University.  He has published one book of stories,Redemption Center (Bear Star Press), and has current work in The Harvard Advocate and Sleet Magazine.  His band, Cast of Clowns, will soon release its first recording.

Emergent Forms: Dana Ward




7:00pm
Thursday, February 16th
Schneider Museum of Art
Southern Oregon University

FREE ($5 donation suggested)


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Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad

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Emergent Forms/West Wind Review Lollapaganza


EMERGENT FORMS: A 21st-CENTURY READING SERIES

presents


a WEST WiND REViEW LOLLAPAGANZA READING
with

BRIAN ANG
JOE ATKINS
DERECK CLEMONS
CHRISTIAN NAGLER
ESTEE SCHWARTZ
WENDY TREVINO
JEANINE WEBB

& special guest stars
DAVID BRAZIL
SARA LARSEN



7:00 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25th
SCHNEIDER MUSEUM OF ART
Center for the Visual Arts
Southern Oregon University
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR

FREE ($5 suggested donation)