Shortly after I moved to Provincetown Mass. in the Fall of 2008, I became plagued by a series of horrible nightmares. I had been told that my apartment at the Fine Arts Work Center was …

To celebrate the passage of the winter solstice, we asked poet Carol Light to brighten our days with postcards from sunny places. Here’s what she she sent us, from a hotspot off the Italian coast…
“Ponza …

Editor’s note: Although the upcoming print issue of Poetry Northwest (Autumn & Winter 2012-2013, v7.n2) is not themed, it does bring together a number of poems that deal with travel in some way. As a …

Editor’s note: Every few months, we’ll take a tour of the archives, highlighting poems and writers from Poetry Northwest’s fifty-plus year history.  The first in the series featured poet and essayist Albert Goldbarth.  This, the …

Editor’s note: The poet applies his prodigious wit to the theme of our most recent issue: science.
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One of the earliest poems I remember writing—I might have been eight—began, “I do not like Infinity/For it does …