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Issue Seven: ENTHUSIASM!

James Longenbach's finds dark secret love in a sick rose
Ursula Le Guin searches for a mysterious lingering on the one-strand river
Katrina Roberts swings to pure music from the stars at Tallapoosa
Lloyd Schwartz goes coy on a dazzling mistress and extravagant bravura
J. T. Barbarese climbs Mount Blanc
J. D. McClatchy listens to Sappho

Plus: Marvin Bell, William Harmon, Herman Asarnow, Henry Hughes, Floyd Skloot, David Mason, Dan Beachy-Quick, Bruce Beasley, David Baker, & more.

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Issue Six

Fall 2008 / Winter 2009

W.S. Di Piero fears ratso pigeons
David Guterson climbs a mountain pass
Rebecca Starks splits the difference above the shrug of clouds
Linda Bierds shreds the fragments of Venice

Plus: Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Bishop conspire about Seattle
And: New poems by Garrett Hongo, David Ciminello, Joanna Klink, P.K. Page, & J.T. Barbarese

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Spring 2008

Issue Five: THE POLITICAL ISSUE

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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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

C.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

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 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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Enthusiasm: Asarnow on Merrill

" To find it invisibly chained, at home in the hollow/ Of his mother’s throat: the real, deepwater thing."

Read Herman Asarnow's enthusiasm for James Merrill's "Pearl," exclusive to Poetry Northwest Online.

November Happy Hour

This month...
Blue Monk
Thursday, November 13, 5:30 pm
The theme is: Revolution!
Games, prizes, and good poetry talk

Everyone is welcome! Bring friends!

For more information, contact Caitlin at caitlin.dwyer@gmail.com

2008 Distinguished Lecture: Stanley Plumly on Keats' Odes

Sunday, September 28, 2008, 4pm at Powell's on Hawthorne

Poetry Northwest is delighted to host poet Stanley Plumly next month as the jewel in our Week of the Odes celebration. The acclaimed poet and Keats scholar will draw you wonderfully into the truths and beauties about the afterlife of the Romantic poet, John Keats. Find out what makes poetry truly poetry.