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​March & April
​2021

Women :: Nonbinary :: Art :: Fiction :: Poetry

Ink drawing over dictionary page. Woman working pinching a vase closed.
Toshiko Takaezu’s Closed Mouth Vase / Lisa Dominguez- Abraham
Black woman with blue cloth over her head and flowing around her like a river.
BRIEF HISTORY / Jakky Bankong Obi
Arm with large watch. Sand is spilling from the  hand. Blue sky background.
Cracked Stucco / Lauren Camp
Photos iris flowers over rectangles.
Chameleon or Now I Love Green / Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
Blue curtains billow into an empty room with no furniture
After the Last Supper/ Julie Cheung
Illustration: Pink sky, three-pronged clouds tinged with green, small crows flying.
On “On the First of March, Crows Begin to Search” by Kay Sage / Nadia Arioli
Woman's blue digitized face. Her eyes are closed and she's applying eye shadow.
A Working Theory of Eyes / Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Abstract paint smeared in background. Foreground: Silhouette of woman's face.
Miracles & Wonder / Alicia Hoffman
City street close to the ground. Yellow light.
Pantoum in Memorium / Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Close-up of sprouts growing from moss and dotted with dew.
They Write You Feral / Ariel Vincent
Red and blue checked quilt with framed red house in the center
Duplex for My Future Self / Melissa Fite Johnson
Peeled orange unraveling upward with black background.
Apple / Nora Hikari
Pink ink drawing on white woman running while geometric shapes fly away from her head and arms.
Separate but Umbilical Situation Relating to My Father / Diana Marie Delgado
Toddler squatting at the edge of a river.
Element: Water / Sonia Greenfield
Post with arrow pointing right in front of a snow bank.
Braid Song in Rubato / Robin Turner
Art: Molly Dunham, Natascha Graham & Public Domain

Editor's Note

Welcome to the new issue of West Trestle Review! Here in Northern California the blossoms have burst forth, and some already shower green fields with their delicate petals, making way for the unfurling leaves of cherry plums. Meanwhile, the daffodowndillies have sprung up seemingly fully formed and as bright as sunshine. It all feels auspicious. 

Of course, spring doesn't make bad news go away. There's still so much that's wrong, painful, and devastating out there, and West Trestle isn't here to pretend otherwise. Since the launch of this issue, the world lost Yong Ae Yue, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Daoyou Feng, Xiaojie Tan, Delaina Ashley Yaun, and Paul Andre Michels, to an act of white terrorism and senseless gun violence. We recognize that this is one act of violence among a rising surge of anti-Asian aggression. As West Trestle is dedicated to fighting racism in all of its forms, we invite you—particularly our white readers and contributors—in donating to Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Atlanta or another organization engaging anti-racist work. 

Meanwhile, our aim is that this issue—filled with gorgeous and heart-aching poetry by Lisa Dominguez-Abraham, Nadia Arioli, Lauren Camp, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bella,  Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Julie Cheung, Diana Marie Delgado, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Sonia Greenfield, Nora Hikari, Alicia Hoffman, Melissa Fite Johnson, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Robin Turner, and A.A. Vincent with art by Natascha Graham and Molly Dunham—be further testament to the powerful spirit of artists and writers. Creative folx are a kind of chrysalis, with the ability to take what's painful, dissolve it into a puddle of its essence, and transmute it, if not into something beautiful, into something that says, "I see you."

We see you. 

And as always, if you appreciate what you find in these virtual pages, please do give a shout-out to our contributors on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Our hope is to be a metaphorical trestle in the lit community, connecting and uplifting the important work done by women and non-binary creators.

Thank you for all you do, and for reading West Trestle Review. 

With gratitude, 
Patricia Caspers
Founding / Managing Editor

  
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