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A Late Winter Reading List: Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen Curls Up with Prose
Greetings, poets + persons of poetic constitution. It’s me, Diana Khoi Nguyen. As a peddler + dabbler/dribbler/lover of poetry, and as earthling, I’ve always wondered about what others (like me and not like me) are reading. As much as I hate/guilty-pleasure-love lists (especially lists of poetry ilk), I am constantly starving to find the next life-altering/favorite-book-of-all-time.
Sure, as a poet, I’ve had hundreds of poetry collections recommended to me–and many of these have been especially instrumental to my poet/human-development, but there’s something I discovered within the past 14 months: my brain is wildly stimulated in strange and wondrous ways when I read life-altering fiction and non-fiction. This is where I will admit that I don’t see myself as a well-read person. But I am a lover of books. And I’d like to share with lovers of poetry–some meaningful works of prose that I’ve been reading/read recently. I hope you don’t mind.
My hope is that: I can share a book, author, feelings with you that might lead you also to experience feelings. I hope I’m able to bring some attention to works that no one (or only one person) told me about.
I want to spread some literary seed! Cross-pollination! Too many times have I heard from prose writers that they “don’t know jack-shit about poetry,” etc. Maybe my prose-writer-acquaintances are an unrepresentative sample of the larger pool. I’ll never know. I mean, I don’t know how to write a paragraph, but that’s not stopping my prose from happening right here. Read the full story »
Afterwords // Pay Attention: Bob Hicok These Days
by Jack Chelgren
Special Projects Intern
Midway through his reading on Thursday night, part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures 2013-14 Poetry Series, Bob Hicok glanced up at the audience. “Do you really want me to do …
Amy Glynn: “This Is Your Captain Speaking – Mary Jo Salter’s Nothing by Design “
Nothing by Design
Mary Jo Salter
Knopf, 2013
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Twenty years ago, Mary Jo Salter published Sunday Skaters, a very fine collection of poems that touches on themes and ideas that longtime readers would be likely to recognize as …
Modernity Explains Unfortunate Events // Heather Altfeld
Modernity Explains Unfortunate Events: The Poetics of a Would-be Anthropologist
It’s hard to figure out the exact moment when I decided not to be an anthropologist. This was the distinct career direction I had finally chosen …
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 …
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 …
#2013poem Challenge Instagram Feed
