Dear Readers, We’re pleased to report that the Spring-Summer special issue is now available– The Photography Issue– our biggest and best yet.
It features poetry by Sierra Nelson, Troy Jollimore, Ellen Bass, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Francis McCue, …
Blog »
December Instagram Challenge: #2013poem
2013poem: Poetry Challenge
#2013poem
Poetry Northwest (@poetrynw), Instagramers Seattle (@Igers_Seattle), and JUXT (@wearejuxt) invite you to finish off our series of poetry challenges by showing us what 2013 has meant to you or could have meant to you. Capture a quiet moment, distill a sweeping event—anything goes.
Challenge Rules
1. Submission dates: 12/1/13 – 12/31/13
2. Post a photo to Instagram and tag it with #2013poem and #ponwphoto
3. Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle & JUXT will pick the winner who will receive a year long subscription (2 issues) to Poetry Northwest
4. Unlimited entries
5. Any photos posted after the close of the challenge will not be considered
6. Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle & JUXT reserve the right to remove any photo deemed inappropriate for any reason
7. By participating, you understand that Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle, & JUXT may reproduce and display your photo at future events and you will be notified if we intend to do so
We are excited to see your #2013poem
#WeAreJuxt #poetry #poem #Igers_Seattle #IgersUSA #Igers
The Poetics of Taxidermy, Part I // Heather Altfeld
Dioramas, Snowpack, Photography, and Nostalgia: A Snapshot of Longing
I’ve been pondering some of the fascinations and fastenings of my recent poetic life, and have come to the conclusion that it is not entirely an accident …
The Fridges of Famous Poets
Curated by Katharine Ogle
Associate Editor
Rilke’s Lemon
A lemon came home from the grocery, nestled
in the net bag with the rest of the produce,
but he hadn’t bought it.
How did you get here?
Rilke puts the lemon in the …
Afterwords // Naming the Animals: Stephen Burt on The Nearly-Baroque in Contemporary Poetry
By Rich Smith
Poetry Northwest Contributing Writer
The talk was held in a conference room on the second floor of the Communications Building on the UW Campus. Weird room! (Good light, though. Lots of lamps.) Weird time! …
Interview // Rich Smith vs. Lisa Ciccarello, Matthew Dickman, Amber Nelson, Danniel Schoonebeek
In practice, comedians remind me so much of poets because you write your poems in seclusion and then you try them out on an audience. I might even respect comedians more than poets. If you say a line of poetry and nobody claps then you don’t give a shit because that’s just what happens at poetry readings.
Afterwords // Poetry Press Week
by Carrie Kahler
Poetry Northwest Staff Writer
Poetry Press Week did not last for a week. Nor did it showcase presses. It did, however, have shrimp and a dj. Inspired by New York Fashion Week, Liz Mehl …
November Instagram Challenge: #ToAutumn
As we wind down our Instagram challenges and prepare for the release of our Fall/Winter 2013-2014 issue we’d like to invite you to respond to one of the most beloved poems in English, John Keats’ “To …
Afterwords // The Present Tense: Joshua Beckman, Matthew Dickman, and Dorothea Lasky Read at the Henry
by Jack Chelgren
Special Projects Intern
It’s a long shot, but if someone were to ask me what contemporary poetry looks like, I would direct them to hop in a time machine, turn the knobs back to …
October Instagram Challenge: #ScarecrowPoem
Over the last few years Poetry Northwest has established a tradition of publishing theme based issues. Last spring saw The Science Issue. The year before saw TheCarolyn Kizer Issue. Influences, politics, and music were the focus of other themes. Our current …
Afterwords // Deep Circles: Mary Jo Bang Talks Translation at Hugo House
It is not that Bang rejects the challenges and responsibilities typically associated with translation, for even as she radically questions and suspends many long-held assumptions about how Dante should read in English, she does so ultimately in the hope of creating a more truthful rendering of the text. Bang discussed in her lecture how many translations of the Inferno are written in elevated, renaissance-style English—a trend she speculates stems from translators’ desire to acknowledge the poem’s age and the disparities between modern English and fourteenth-century Italian. Yet Bang argued that such piously old-fashioned renderings of the Inferno were flawed from the start, since the fourteenth-century English of Dante’s contemporaries differed drastically from the seventeenth-century Elizabethan variety favored by these translators. A truly historically accurate translation of the Inferno in this sense would have to sound a lot less like Milton or Shakespeare and a lot more like the Middle English of Chaucer.
September Instagram Challenge #KasugaPoem
Over the last few years Poetry Northwest has established a tradition of publishing theme based issues. Last spring saw The Science Issue. The year before saw The
Carolyn Kizer Issue. Influences, politics, and music were the …
#2013poem Challenge Instagram Feed
