This month, we bring you a poem (published in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2) that figures a complex struggle and longing. Musing on its origins, D. A. Powell writes that “Etel Adnan’s Master of …

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants and The Invention of the …

This month, words plucked from memory.  Natasha Trethewey writes that her poem, “Mexico,” which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2, “began as an attempt to make sense of a memory that has stayed with …

January 2010
This month, Poetry Northwest enters its 51st year. We are fortunate to be among a very few literary magazines with such endurance and community support. As many readers will know, for most of that …

For the first month of the new year, we bring you a poem by Bruce Beasley that appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2009-10 v4.n2.  About this piece, the author writes, “I had been reading about …