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July & August
​2021


Women :: Non-binary :: Art :: Fiction :: Poetry

Collage. Background: pond with lily pads. Foreground: Two hands gripping a koi as if to bend it in half. One fish eye is showing.
Sleeping Lotus / Katherine Huang
Encaustic brushstrokes: light blue upper right corner, orange-yellow in the middle; dark green in lower left corner. Overlaid with white
Artist Interview / Chizu Omori
Forest path with bright light
Black Summertime / Jasmine Harris
Encaustic painting. yellow brushstrokes with dark green in the lower right corner and blue in the lower left corner, and smudges of brown throughout.
Casey Kasem you always tap out at forty / alexa doran
Black and white collage. A woman's eye up close with lightning striking in the center.
Lightning / Kathryn Petruccelli
Abstract painting: Yellow paint in lower left corner; blue in upper right corner. White background
Slow Living / Brittney Corrigan
Fennel plant
what we carry / melody wang
encaustic with deep straight rows in the upper left and lower right corners. White with layers of light blue and dark yellow below. A deep smudge of dark blue is in the middle.
Photos We Never Took in 1998 / Mary Biddinger
encaustic art in yellow and green with a smudge of dark blue in the lower left corner.
Ekphrastic pantoum on revenge / simone person
Geometrical shapes in blue, red, and black
to erase a memory / catherine gander
Encaustic art. White with dark blue below and a smudge of red in lower corner. Looks like an aerial shot of the arctic.
tracking numbers / Tiffany Babb
Encaustic painting. Abstract brushstrokes yellow and white with smudges of brown and blue
Artifact / Theresa Pappas
Barnacles
Antiquities / Michele Sharpe
encaustic painting. Brushstrokes of white with under layers of dark blue, orange and red.
Fairlies: Home of Lost Souls / Sonia FL Leung
rusted out truck with graffiti trailer in front of dry hills and phone lines
Rid This House of Mirrors / Kathleen Hellen
Dear Reader, 

Welcome to the July / August 2021 issue of West Trestle Review, also known as The Anniversary Issue, as this beauty marks one year since WTR dusted off its traveling coat, tapped its heels three times and said, "There's no place like lit!" 

As you know, lit mag lives are sometimes akin to dog lives—too brief—but maybe some journals are more feline, leaping up nimbly after each tumble from the oak branch. I hope that's true for WTR, perhaps without all of the falling. We are joyous to have landed on our feet after a complicated year. 

One leap we've made in celebration of our trip around the sun is the first-ever West Trestle Poetry Award, judged by the fabulous Noor Hindi! Hindi 
is a Palestinian-American poet and the Equity and Inclusion Reporter forThe Devil Strip Magazine. We are thrilled that she agreed to join us for this adventure, about which you will find more information right here. 

While you are perusing the contest, don't forget to check out this dazzling new issue! We are pleased to feature encaustic art by Chizu Omori (read Omori's interview here), a trip to the 1990s in Mary Biddinger's story, "Photos We Never Took in 1998," as well as Sonia FL Leung's life-altering stay in the Chunking Mansions in her nonfiction piece, "Home of Lost Souls." And the issue features stunning poetry by Tiffany Babb, Brittney Corrigan, Alexa Doran, Catherine Gander, Praniti Gulyani, Jasmine Harris, Kathleen Hellen, Katherine Huang, Theresa Pappas, Simone Person, Kathryn Petruccelli, Michele Sharpe and Melody Wang that is so spectacular it will stir you out of your summer stupor—or any kind of stupor, really. 

As ever, if you are moved by the work you find in our digital pages, please let our contributors know, share and tag us on social media (and provide a content warning where applicable). Writing and editing is often a lonely place, and WTR strives to build bridges wherever it goes.  
 

Until then, write on!

Patricia Caspers 
Founding / Managing Editor
Art: Chizu Omori, Molly Dunham, & Public Domain


  
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