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  • Current Issue: Summer & Fall 2017

    by Staff

    July 1, 2017
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First Lines / from the current issue

humans twirl the lake / on knees cut off by water

Daneen Wardrop | lake

poem of the week

Andrew Gottlieb: “Naming the Everglades”

Published by Staff

"So much of the world / holds itself at a distance"

July 24, 2017
Poems

Michael Wasson: “Aposiopesis [or, The Field Between the Living & the Dead]”

Published by Staff

"lost / in the field / waiting / for human life / to reenter"

July 17, 2017
Poems

Sarah María Medina: “Erasure of Girlhood”

Published by Staff

I could always hold the longest underwater

July 10, 2017
Poems

Thomas Centolella: “The Secret Life”

Published by Staff

"And soon enough / there you are, your face by Picasso, your body by Giacometti / or Renoir, walking into a room that has been waiting for you"

July 5, 2017
Poems

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

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commentary

Line Cook // Tommy Pico with Indian Nachos

Published by Staff

by Keetje Kuipers | Associate Editor

July 16, 2017
Commentary, Line Cook

Appreciation // Safia Elhillo’s The January Children

Published by Staff

by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | author of Water & Salt

June 27, 2017
Appreciations, Commentary

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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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This week: Sarah María Medina's "Erasure of Girlhood." http://www.poetrynw.org/sarah-maria-medina-erasure-girlhood/ Lazy Sunday with our latest issue. The Summer & Fall 2017 issue is available! Subscribe now, or look for us in your local bookshop. http://www.poetrynw.org/subscribe/ On this 4th of July, let's revisit this essay on poetry of witness by Sandra Beasley. "The poet’s words, like flint and tinder, ignite the silence." http://www.poetrynw.org/sandra-beasley-flint-and-tinder-understanding-the-difference-between-poetry-of-witness-and-documentary-poetics/

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Andrew Gottlieb: "Naming the Everglades"
Michael Wasson: "Aposiopesis [or, The Field Between the Living & the Dead]"

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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