Conversation Piece
There is much to be said
on the way vine leaves
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Field Holler
Behind bars in California,
Jon calls to tell me he is a member
Two Poems
No one asks
the wall its business here.
Losing
Darkness asked:
why did you come to our home?
Because Pleasure Counts Bigtime: A Review of Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours
“Every poem feels deliberate, delivered by the poet with the confidence of an experienced singer, even as she overwhelms us with the method of surfeit (what is technically called “letting it rip”).”
We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost
“For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration.”
Every Empire Sings Itself a Lullaby: On Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something about Living
“Every repetition is an expansion, even a reinvention, of what an image or idea can mean or do. This shouldn’t be misunderstood as mere consolation, either.”
2024 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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