Spring 2008

Issue Five: THE POLITICAL ISSUE

Spring/Summer 2008

Heather McHugh dreams of a Texas songbird
Robert Pinsky visits the National Portrait Gallery
Jane Hirshfield considers Augusto Pinochet
Kevin Young gets the Hang Dog Blues
Mary Jo Salter says "My pen is angled too"

Plus: Stephen Dunn, James Longenbach, Brenda Hillman, Norman Dubie, John Koethe, & Eleanor Wilner.
And, in translation: Tomas Transtromer, Mahmoud Darwish, & Paul Celan.

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Fall 2007

Issue Four

"Needy speediness is the enemy of style": Stanley Plumly on the belles lettres of e-mail

Letters from Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale

"Lover's Manual" by Eva Heisler

David Mason channels Charles Bukowski & Rachel Hadas waits for a train

Plus: Oliver Rice, Joanna Klink, Killarney Clary, Richard Kenney, Lucia Perillo, & more

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National Public Radio's "Oregon Considered"
Considers the revival of Poetry Northwest

A look at the magazine's history & current place in contemporary culture with host Allison Frost. Listen now

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Issue One

Vol 1 No 1C.K. Williams reads the sports page

Robert Bly visits Chaco Canyon

Marilyn Hacker faces disease

Richard Kenney interviews for a muse

Jock Sturges discusses poetry and photography

Plus: Talvikki Ansel, Peter Campion, Henri Cole, Debora Greger, Campbell McGrath, Stanley Plumly, Nance Van Winckel

Cover art by Jock Sturges

Issue Two

V1N2

Yves Bonnefoy watches lightning

Meghan O'Rourke on grief in 1972

Phillis Levin finds an acorn and puts "on a hat like that"

Charles Wright: "The mind's the affliction"

Walk the Line screenwriter Gill Dennis listens to Johnny Cash & considers poetic voice

Bill Donahue ponders his nights with Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Jane Hirschfield, & Robert Bly

Plus: Elizabeth Bradfield, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Albert Goldbarth, & David Wojahn

Cover art by Timothy Chapman

Issue Three

The Music IssueThe Music Issue

Paul Muldoon talks about his songs

Jacques Reda gets dizzy for Dizzy

Eleanor Wilner writes a libretto

Eliza Griswold covers the war

William Logan remembers 1969

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Papal Disney
" The women competing for 'Miss You Smile Card Rome' loomed like one hundred foot tall Jumbotron apparitions smiling and dancing their way towards fame."
Read William Bernhard's account of spending four weeks in the Eternal City, exclusive to Poetry Northwest Online.

Monthly Happy Hours

For three years, the editorial staff has met at a local watering hole each month & invited the public to join us for a drink. We're taking a break for now, but will return with monthly Happy Hours soon.

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Theodore Roethke Prize & Richard Hugo Prize

John Koethe & Supritha Rajan awarded prizes for the best work published in Poetry Northwest in 2007.

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