Anne Marie Rooney is the author of Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon, 2012). She has won the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and the Amy Award. She lives in New Orleans, where she is a teaching artist.

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Founded in 1977, West Branch is published in the spring and fall of each year at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.

In this issue: poetry by Leslie Adams, Charlie Clark, Esvie Coemish, Weston Cutter, Alex Fabrizio, Susan Goslee, J. T. Jarrett...