When I picked up Richard’s first book, Not a Soul But Us, I knew only that it was a story in eighty-four sonnets about a boy and his dog struggling to…    read more

Patricia Caspers is the founding editor-in-chief of West Trestle Review. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The Most Kissed Woman in the World. She earned an MFA in…    read more

This essay by Aizhan Yesbolatova explores the complicated relationship between a mother and her father as she watches him be a different sort of grandfather to her child. “The Yellow…    read more