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  • Coming Soon: Summer & Fall 2017

    by Staff

    June 1, 2017
    Uncategorized

First Lines / A Preview of the Summer Issue

I start down the road but I'm the road.

Marty McConnell | Radio silence, WENZ, WJMO, Cleveland

poem of the week

Paisley Rekdal: “The Stone Child”

Published by Staff

"What is the love that can follow this word?"

June 26, 2017
Archive, New Series, Poems

William Brewer: “Oxy 40”

Published by Staff

"Think of the mason jar / we use to kill yellow jackets"

June 19, 2017
Poems

Ellen Welcker: “The Plan”

Published by Staff

"I tried for some radical joy yesterday."

June 12, 2017
Poems

Taliesin: “Nights” (translated by Katherine Robinson)

Published by Staff

"Do you know what / you are when your eyes are shut"

June 5, 2017
Poems

Featured Essay

Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”

by Staff

"I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed."

April 2, 2017
Essays, Features

book reviews

June 14, 2017

Paul Legault’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2

by Jack Chelgren | Associate Editor

by Staff
June 4, 2017

Elizabeth Powell’s Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter

by Kary Wayson | Contributing Writer

by Staff
May 14, 2017

James McMichael’s If You Can Tell

by R.M. Haines | Contributing Writer

by Staff
April 27, 2017

Martin Rock’s Residuum

by Zach Savich | Contributing Writer

by Staff

commentary

Appreciation // Safia Elhillo’s The January Children

Published by Staff

by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | author of Water & Salt

June 27, 2017
Appreciations, Commentary

Interview // Deborah Woodard on the Poems of Crysta Casey

Published by Staff

By Letitia Cain | Business Manager

June 7, 2017
Commentary, Interviews

Podcast

Poems, The Subvocal Zoo

Alan Chong Lau: “where the lights are low”

doom's business / falls in a rag pile / lined with bones

February 20, 2017

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We're thrilled to feature visual art from @edskoog in our Summer & Fall 2017 issue. Here's a teaser. #visualartists #poetry #patrickswayze Poet and translator Edith Shiffert, one of Poetry Northwest’s founding editors, recently passed away in Kyoto, Japan. She was 101 years old. Big thank you to @ryanmolenkamp for "Cliffs near Capitol Gorge," which will be on the cover of our upcoming issue. Remembering when the talented @gabrielle_bates_ created the back/draft for our Summer & Fall 2016 issue. #love #visualart

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from the archive

Paisley Rekdal: “The Stone Child”"What is the love that can follow this word?"June 26, 2017

Sherman Alexie: “Home Improvement”"I never learned to fix anything"May 22, 2017

Paige Lewis: “The Saints Don’t Think of You Fondly”"It always comes / back to light."May 11, 2017

Kaveh Akbar: “Before You Left on Your Journey Which Has Kept You Away for So Long”"any part of me you remove / will grow back"May 9, 2017

Carl Phillips: “Darkening, Brightening”"a game, something someone / played, once."May 1, 2017

Tomás Q. Morín: “Nudist Colony”"...more than a pool / of smudges and parts."April 3, 2017

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