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    Current Issue: Summer & Fall 2016

    by Aaron Barrell

    July 11, 2016
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Kathleen Flenniken: “For Years You Observed Night from a Distance”

Published by Bill Carty

Night was the length of two western states; / it took hours to pass.

September 26, 2016
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Donald Hall: “The Factory”

Published by Aaron Barrell

That the belts move / among grease

September 19, 2016
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August 2, 2016

Reviewed: Jessica Johnson’s In Absolutes We Seek...

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June 2, 2016

R.M. Haines: “The Moral Imagination on Dialysis”...

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Richard Kenney: “Be Still My Heart: A Closer Look at Biology in Relation to Metrical Forms”

by Aaron Barrell

I don’t think we have iambic meters because we have a duple cardiac rhythm; neither do I think for a moment that they have nothing to do with each other.

May 11, 2016
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June 9, 2016

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Kevin Craft (Editor 2010 – 2016) Signs Off Most poetry readers I know chuckle wearily at the steady stream...

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Afterwords // Nine Things Kevin Young Wants You to Know About Voice

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March 18, 2016

Spring and All: New Issue, New Editors, New Books

Poetry Northwest changes editors, and adds a publishing house SEATTLE, WA – Poetry Northwest (the region’s oldest literary magazine,...

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from the archive

Donald Hall: “The Factory”That the belts move / among greaseSeptember 19, 2016

Charles Wright: Two Poems from LittlefootI have nothing to say. I am a recording machine, / a listening device.August 22, 2016

Adrienne Raphel: “Confession”I wrote “Confession” in the winter, recently after I had moved from Iowa City...August 15, 2016

May Swenson: “Let Us Prepare”Let us eat nothing but darkness / refuse our stale orbit / and walk...May 27, 2016

Kevin Young: “On Being Blind”We all quit dancing / To look.April 25, 2016

Joan Swift: “Mushrooms in a Museum”The eye leans out to those white wings / Molded in flight like waxen...March 14, 2016

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