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YOUR CART

march & april
​2022

Women :: Non-binary :: Art :: Fiction :: Poetry
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Yellow sink with trickling faucet and drain
My Mother Wore Hijab at the pool / sally badawi
Text: Artist Interview with Paulina Swietliczko
Three bell peppers in the foreground. Red, green, red. Background is a blue and white bowl of soup with spoon.
An Unlikely Alchemy with Song and Butter / Chitra Gopalakrishnan
Still life, strawberries in a green bowl beside a squeezed half lemon and garlic bulb
infinitely stranger / jessica cohn
Still life, blue counter, wall, pitcher of water, blue coffee cup and half slice of lemon on counter.
Liminal Spaces / Karen George
Llama plant holder (white) with small cactus blooming pink, still life
Origin Story / hannah silverstein
Still life, gray sugar bowl with tilted lid and spoon handle. Foreground is a small clear vase with two white flowers beside and tea bag.
discompopulated / T. De Los Reyes
Still life, spaghetti squash cut in half with a long strip of squash skin, knife and fork between the two halves
Every poem I write I ask permission / Brionne Janae
still life, black frying pan and pink grapefruit sliced in half
The Summer Before My Son Leaves for College / Catherine Esposito Prescott
Painting: Bell and hedgehog trinket in front of a window
During the Pandemic, My Son Plays Minecraft / Violeta Garcia Mendoza
Painting: Coffee pot and bell pepper
Sun Compass / Angie Macri
Still life, stack of tea cups and saucers, white bowl on top with yellow liquid in the bottom. Knife and spoon rest across the top of the bowl.
Fog Physics / T. De Los Reyes
Still life, chopped cabbage head, purple
Ode to my fallow uterus / Terri Linn Davis
White dish drainer with blue and green dishes and a silver pot.
Chapter from Handbook for the Newly Disabled: Disability is the Crescendo of a Bette Midler Song [with Photo Illustrations] / Allison Blevins
Pink Camellia in a cup of water beside paint tubes
They say jesus walked on water / Melody Serra
White orchid in pitcher. Green leaves. Gray background.
Ruth's Aria / Melissa Studdard
Still life, kitchen sink with pink gloves, sponge and bottle of soap
I tour the wax museum of my younger selves and forgive her / Anuja Ghimire
White pumpkin with blue coffee cup.
Image of Tau Tangles in the Brain / Kelly R. Samuels
Art:  Paulina Swietliczko.
See the full gallery here.

Editor's Note

Dear Reader, 
​

I’m writing on the cusp of International Women’s Day, “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality,” according to the IWD community. This day is a national holiday in many countries, but not, sadly, in the United States where the West Trestle team resides. In fact, it occurs to me that here in the U.S., we don’t have a single holiday in honor of a woman—let alone a non-binary or trans person. I, for one, would gladly trade in a couple of old white presidential dudes for a Harriet Tubman Day, Sacagawea Day, Laverne Cox Day, or a Notorious RBG Day.

One day.

While I’m on the topic of Ginsburg, you must read, “Ruth’s Aria,” a powerful poem by Melissa Studdard in honor of Her Honor: “I cut hackneyed, / hand-me-down, halftime rights / from the hands that held them, and I / returned them stitched back whole.”

Ginsburg would have been 89 this month, and I hope she’s making spectacular birthday wishes on the other side.

While you’re here you should also read everything, of course. This issue’s contributors--Allison Blevins, Sally Badawi, Jessica Cohn, Terri Linn Davis, T. De Los Reyes, Karen George, Anuja Ghimire, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Brionne Janae, Angie Macri, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Kelly R. Samuels, Melody Serra and Hannah Silverstein—have written moving pieces about grandparents and parents, about bodies and bodies of water, about racism, loss, and delight. We’re also incredibly grateful to Paulina Swietliczko for sharing her still lifes with us. Their soft, quiet domesticity brings the entire issue together.

I considered sharing here the many and varied ways that women are oppressed by the patriarchy (as if you don’t know), but the purpose of International Women’s Day, it seems, is to share women’s successes, and what better way to celebrate than with a beautiful new issue of West Trestle Review, as we are dedicated to uplifting the creativity of women and non-binary folx every day.

Huzzah!
​
Patricia Caspers
Founding Editor-in-Chief 

  
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