Over the last two years, I’ve written more than twenty histories, including ones about the blanket (invented by my grandfather), the envelope, board games and game shows, the Rolling Stones, and paranoia. I …

This month, from Andrew Zawacki, an analogue of memory: Andrew notes that “’Videotape’ is a serial poem primarily concerned with landscape—whether natural or manufactured, oneiric or simulated—and with the various media we employ to record, …

This month, sent from one of the round earth’s imagined corners, a poem by Sierra Nelson, who writes that “‘We’ll Always Have Carthage’ was inspired in part by images from Virgil’s The Aeneid. In that …

Exclusive to Poetry Northwest Online, here are several poems from Amy Glynn Greacen’s A Modern Herbal: a manuscript-in-progress that, according to its author, “shares its title with Maud Grieve’s 1931 herbal pharmacopoeia. Each poem is about …

The next print edition of Poetry Northwest will be the spring-summer issue, due in April 2010. Until then, in addition to our regular monthly highlights from the most recent issue (see Natasha Trethewey’s “Mexico,” for …