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May & June
​2021

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

Acrylic paint in red, white, and blue over sheet music. Words that appear: lumen de lumine and qui tollis peccata mundi
Haint Blue / Siaara Freeman
Blue bird holds up a globe of the world
The Stony Lake / Jessica Q. Stark
Abstract image. White blur with a black and white human-ish form lying atop. A ladder is in the foreground. The background is red.
Sleep When the Baby Sleeps / Jackleen Holton
Black and white photo collage. A woman flips her head back and sprays water. A bird spreads its wings and leaps from her head.
Eve in the Wilderness / Sara Quinn Rivara
Abstract painting of smeared and scribbled paint in red, blue, yellow, and burgundy.
Artist Interview / Kelly Cressio-Moeller
Pattern of lines in black, green, blue, burgundy, and gray with two perpendicular lines in blue with notches like barbed wire. There are some place where the paper is torn away.
Evidence / Ann Hudson
Illustration of a brown hand holding a candle to a candle. Background is black.
Testify / Latorial Faison
Tall sailing ship mast
Cubits or 力 / Maria S. Picone
Illustration: Robot give side eye while looking at reflection in mirror. Reflection is a police officer's face. Background is branches. There's a bird on the mirror.
Humans Don’t Realize How Biased They Are Until Machine Learning Reproduces the Bias / Gaia Rajan
Measuring spoons cups in black and white
Sweet Potato Pie / DeMisty D. Bellinger
abstract of smeared colors: purple, pink, red, green black, yellow.
The Fifty Worst Films of All Time / Martha Silano
Collage of fabric and acrylic paint in burgundy with a large swath of green brocade in the middle
Cavities Are Inherited / Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Illustration of three red winged black birds and a little brown bird on branches blooming with small pink flowers. The background is off-white.
The Thrill Never Wavers / Jill Kitchen
Digitized watercolor of two brown horses in a field.
Duck, Outer Banks, North Carolina, 2016 / Lynne Thompson
White legs in shadow and sunlight.
Brothers / Claudia Schatz
Abstract illustration of a star or sea star or octopus or sun with wavy arms and swirls of pink, blue and yellow.
Afterlife / Callie S. Blackstone

Editor's Note

Dear Reader, 

I'm writing these words on the cusp of Mother's Day here in the U.S., and my son and I have returned from the farmers' market where the line for fresh cut flowers wound long through market stalls and around the corner. I did not buy flowers for my mother, but we'll spend the day together, hiking and noshing. I'm grateful for her and the vaccine that allows us to hug again after a year apart. I'm grateful for the difficult conversations we've had about our sometimes-traumatic past, that she's young and in good health, and that I am able to love her whole-heartedly. 

I know this is not true for everyone, and I'll be thinking about those of you for whom the day is more complicated, layered, or painful 
— as Father's Day is for me. I'll be thinking, too, of the many ways we are mothers: grieving moms, foster moms, adoptive moms, stepmoms, dog and cat moms, plant moms, and the folx who've learned to mother themselves. Maybe Mother's Day should really be about celebrating everyone who accomplished the monumental work of being born. 
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However you celebrate (and even if you don't), the May-June issue of West Trestle Review is our gift to you. Though it's not an issue dedicated to motherhood, it is splendid. This issue features work by  Callie S. Blackstone, DeMisty Bellinger, Latorial Faison, Siaara Freeman, Jackleen Holton, Ann Hudson, Jill Kitchen, Maria S. Picone, Gaia Rajan, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Sara Quinn Rivara, Jessica Q. Stark, Lynne Thompson, Claudia Schatz, Martha Silano, with stunning  art by Kelly Cressio-Moeller.

We are grateful to all of our contributors for sharing their talents with us. As always, give them a shout-out on social media if their work speaks to you, and we encourage you to use content warnings as well, if you feel they are needed. 


Finally, we are dreaming up something special for our July-August issue, otherwise known as "the first anniversary issue," so watch for it. 

Until then, write on!

Patricia Caspers 
Founding / Managing Editor
Art: Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Molly Dunham, Patricia Caspers & Public Domain


  
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