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This month, we bring you a poem (published in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2) that figures a complex struggle and longing. Musing on its origins, D. A. Powell writes that “Etel Adnan’s Master of …
David Biespiel says farewell
Natasha Trethewey sits on a mule in Monterrey
C. K. Williams remembers the miserable mysteries before Roe v. Wade
Kenneth Fields knows “One Love”
Also: Mary Jo Salter, Talvikki Ansel, Wendy Willis, W. S. Di …
This month, words plucked from memory. Natasha Trethewey writes that her poem, “Mexico,” which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2, “began as an attempt to make sense of a memory that has stayed with …
For the first month of the new year, we bring you a poem by Bruce Beasley that appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2. About this piece, the author writes, “I had been reading about …
Sara Wainscott is the subject of this month’s feature. Her poem “The Apprentice Making Paint” appears in Poetry Northwest Spring-Summer 2009 v4.n1. Wainscott says, “I am interested in the way poems allow scenes to overlay …
This month we’re featuring the poetry of Wendy Willis, which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2. According to Willis, “‘Who can find a virtuous wife?’ is the opening line of Proverbs 31:10 and begins …
Here’s hoping it’s not too late to finally answer the question, “What is it you’re looking for in a poem?”
David Biespiel
In your hands is my last issue as editor of this magazine. Before I pass …
This month we’re featuring Danielle Chapman’s poem “Meet Me in Hollywood,” which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2008-09 v3.n2. According to Chapman, “If there’s anyone lurking in the shadows of this poem, it’s probably Allen …
“Love, Lorena” appears in the current issue of Poetry Northwest, our sixth in the new series. Of his poem David Ciminello writes, “as a writer I am most concerned with the musicality of language and …
