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Kristen Steenbeeke: A Review of “I Take Back the Sponge Cake”
May 22, 2012 – 3:24 pm
Kristen Steenbeeke: A Review of “I Take Back the Sponge Cake”

I Take Back the Spongecake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own Adventure
Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson
Rose Metal Press, 2012

At the Poetry Northwest Community page, Kristen Steenbeeke reviews a recent collaboration between visual artist Loren Erdrich and recent Poetry …

Bob Hicok: “Fortune Teller”
May 10, 2012 – 5:10 pm
Bob Hicok: “Fortune Teller”

Bob Hicok, whose sciencey and seriocomic poems appear in the current, science-themed issue of Poetry Northwest (v7.n1), makes a rare landing in the Northwest this May 17-20 at the Skagit River Poetry Festival in La …

Sci-Po reading features Katherine Larson, Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10
May 3, 2012 – 11:53 am
Sci-Po reading features Katherine Larson, Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10

We’re pleased welcome recent Yale Younger Poetry Prize and recent Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Katherine Larson for her northwest debut. Ms. Larson is a featured contributor to the spring Science Issue. She will read …

Kathleen Flenniken: “Augean Suite”
March 9, 2012 – 5:53 pm
Kathleen Flenniken: “Augean Suite”

Editor’s note: Kathleen Flenniken is the 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate.  (Congratulations!)  On Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 3pm, she will read from her new book of poems, Plume, at Open Books in Seattle.  Details …

Albert Goldbarth: “Some Archeology”
February 4, 2012 – 11:40 am
Albert Goldbarth: “Some Archeology”

Editors’ note: Thumbing through the Poetry Northwest archives, many names appear with pleasing frequency, and Albert Goldbarth’s as often as any—particularly in the magazine’s early days with David Wagoner as editor. One finds already in …