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Martha Silano: “Ours”
February 21, 2011 – 5:55 pm
Martha Silano: “Ours”

With the Spring issue of Poetry Northwest soon on its way, we bring  you a taste of what’s to come.  In “Ours,” Martha Silano puts her eye to the lens of our own sphere.  She …

David McAleavey: “Daylily season”
February 6, 2011 – 4:34 pm One Comment
David McAleavey: “Daylily season”

There’s both turbulence and calm in this piece, something like kneading bread dough. We’d been to see an emphatic production of King Lear with a gangster-era setting; the next day our clothes retained some whiff …

Carol Light: “January Walk”
January 2, 2011 – 5:01 pm 8 Comments
Carol Light: “January Walk”

“January Walk” began as a post-squall “nature walk” writing exercise, in hushed company with a–fishing now for a suitable collective noun: sord? siege? muster? ostentation?–of eighth graders. Breaking the silence meant yanking the whole skulk …

Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”
November 15, 2010 – 12:54 pm
Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”

Last week, we featured the first of three takes by Eric McHenry on Robert Frost’s immortal “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”  This week, we bring you the second of these riffs.  The third appears as “Stay” …

Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”
November 6, 2010 – 1:43 pm One Comment
Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”

The Fall/Winter issue (v5.n2) of Poetry Northwest is beginning to arrive now in mailboxes everywhere; and with it–in the northern hemisphere, at least–the longer nights and falling leaves of autumn.  To mark both of these …