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July Westhale

July Westhale

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

July Westhale is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of Trailer Trash, and Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called “stunning” in a starred review. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s, DIAGRAM, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also has an […]

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July Westhale: American Literature

March 11, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

for Joey    “the silver lamp,–the ravishment, –the wonder–the darkness,–loneliness, the fearful thunder” John Keats   There’s a billboard with the route 66’s version of June Cleaver, holding a pie underneath block letters HO-MADE PIES, which is how dry towns get their jollies, I guess.    We buy coffee in cups so thin the joe […]

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July Westhale: moon moon

March 11, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

There’s snow on the ocean, which is meant to confuse them and does, though not because they are unprepared for it but rather because the sight of it reminds them of the static-hearted parts of their bodies as they prostrate themselves in years-over-yonder: exploratory attempts to find warmth—not unlike a surefooted expedition—, in the disappearance […]

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July Westhale: Rotten Apples Return to Harvard’s Glass Flowers Exhibition

March 11, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

What you have heard is true— something rotten once got us  from our houses, from our beds  where what was there may  or may not have been.   Remember, my darling, my sweet,  that a blistered and blackened  thing, a thing representing life/ sin itself, was a cause for art.  Gave a man, many men,  […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: July Westhale

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