Dear Readers: Our new issue is finally here. They we have tested ourselves against the Keatsian principles of silence and slow time these past months, we think it’s worth the wait. The cover art alone …
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~ New Issue Release Reading ~
“Slam Poet”
sketch by Jay Bryant
Wednesday
March 4
7:30 pm
Phinney Books
7405 Greenwood Ave. N
Featuring local luminaries
Elizabeth Austen, Suzanne Bottelli,
Jessica Gigot, Laura Shoemaker,
and Kary Wayson
free! come celebrate the new issue
in style…
“Dismal Situations”: Loneliness, Racism, and Knowing the Present Through Verse
By Jack Chelgren | Special Projects Intern and Contributing Writer
As a word is
mostly connotation,
matter is mostly
aura?
Halo?
(The same loneliness
that separates me
from what I call
“the world.”)
— Rae Armantrout, “A Resemblance”
I.
It’s afternoon not long ago. I’m listening to …
A Celebration of Carolyn Kizer
Sunday, January 18, 2015, 4:00 pm
Poets from across the country come together for a memorial celebration of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and former Seattleite Carolyn Kizer. Readers include Willis Barnstone, Kevin Craft, Carol Muske-Dukes, Tess Gallagher, Judith Emlyn Johnson, Sierra Nelson, David Rigsbee, Tree …
The Subvocal Zoo: Episode 6 – Timothy Donnelly
Poetry Northwest‘s monthly podcast series, The Subvocal Zoo, features editors and friends of the magazine interviewing poets during the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Seattle. Each episode features lively conversation …
The Subvocal Zoo: Episode 6 - Timothy Donnelly [ 39 min 53 s | 36.52 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 371Interview // Bob Hicok
By Diana Khoi Nguyen | Contributing Writer
Bob Hicok was born in 1960 in Michigan and worked for many years in the automotive die industry. A published poet long before he earned his MFA, Hicok is …
Afterwords // Patricia Lockwood: The Hour of Bewilderment
By Elizabeth Cooperman and Matthew Kelsey
On July 10, 2014, Patricia Lockwood read at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Book Company from her most recent book of poems, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. The room–a book-lined basement annex with a …
Afterwords // Kay Ryan: All Your Flamingos
By Jack Chelgren | Special Projects Intern
When Tree Swenson, the executive director of Hugo House, introduced Kay Ryan for a lecture on rhyme last week, she noted the delightful sense of “hidden treasure” lurking in …
In Memory of Carolyn Kizer
We learn this weekend the sad news that Carolyn Kizer, a founding editor of Poetry Northwest, has passed away.
She touched many lives as a poet, mentor and friend, and we’d like to share with you …
Scott Condon: Notes on Rae Armantrout’s Poem “Thrown”
By Scott Condon | Contributing Writer
The title of Rae Armantrout’s poem “Thrown” immediately brings to mind philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that human life is thrown into the world. This concept plays a key role in …
Interview // Joanna Klink
By Diana Khoi Nguyen | Contributing Writer
Joanna Klink earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University. Her collections of poetry include They Are Sleeping (2000), Circadian (2007), and Raptus (2010). Her new book, Excerpts from a …
Seattle’s Favorite Poems – Thursday, 9/18, 7:30 pm
Seattle’s Favorite Poems with Robert Pinsky – Free Event!
THU, SEP 18, 2014, 7:30 PM Town Hall Seattle
Celebrate beloved poems with other local poetry lovers in this special event, which is free and open to the …
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