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Spring-Summer 2008 v3.n1

Poetry Northwest Issue Five coverTHE 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.

Poetry Features

Mary Jo Salter

Song of the Children

Rebecca Starks

Gray Matter

Michael Heffernan

They Always Say He Marks the Sparrow’s Fall

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