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		<title>Rod Jellema: &#8220;A Note to the Swedish Mystic Who Wrote that &#8216;the Wash is Nothing but Wash&#8217;”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one began, as many of my poems do, with the stirring of a childhood memory brought to mind by a present  experience. Behind our summer place, an old farmhouse in Lake Michigan dunelands, passing ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/09/rod-jellema-a-note-to-the-swedish-mystic-who-wrote-that-the-wash-is-nothing-but-wash%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Jason Whitmarsh: Three Histories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, I&#8217;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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/08/jason-whitmarsh-three-histories/</link>
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		<title>Andrew Zawacki: &#8220;Videotape: 51&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, from Andrew Zawacki, an analogue of memory: Andrew notes that “&#8217;Videotape&#8217; is a serial poem primarily concerned with landscape—whether natural or manufactured, oneiric or simulated—and with the various media we employ to record, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/07/andrew-zawacki-videotape-51/</link>
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		<title>Sierra Nelson: &#8220;We&#8217;ll Always Have Carthage&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, sent from one of the round earth&#8217;s imagined corners, a poem by Sierra Nelson, who writes that &#8220;&#8216;We&#8217;ll Always Have Carthage&#8217; was inspired in part by images from Virgil&#8217;s The Aeneid. In that ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/06/sierra-nelson-well-always-have-carthage/</link>
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		<title>Amy Glynn Greacen: &#8220;A Modern Herbal: Juglans Regia&#8221; &amp; &#8220;A Modern Herbal: Juglans Nigra&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exclusive to Poetry Northwest Online, here are several poems from Amy Glynn Greacen&#8217;s A Modern Herbal: a manuscript-in-progress that, according to its author, &#8220;shares its title with Maud Grieve’s 1931 herbal pharmacopoeia. Each poem is about ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/05/amy-glynn-greacan-a-modern-herbal-juglans-regia-a-modern-herbal-juglans-nigra/</link>
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		<title>Richard Hugo Prize 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Kenneth Fields is the recipient of the Richard Hugo Prize for his poem &#8220;One Love,&#8221; published in the Fall &#38; Winter 2009-2010 issue (v4.n2) of Poetry Northwest.  Read the winning poem below.
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The Theodore Roethke ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/04/richard-hugo-prize-2009/</link>
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		<title>Theodore Roethke Prize 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Mary Jo Salter is the recipient of the Theodore Roethke Prize for her poems &#8220;Unbroken Music&#8221; and &#8220;From a Balcony, Lake Como,&#8221; appearing in the Fall &#38; Winter 2009-2010 (v4.n2) issue of Poetry Northwest.  ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/04/theodore-roethke-prize-2009/</link>
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		<title>Are you ready for The Pitch? Submissions due by 9/15</title>
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Here at Poetry Northwest, we don’t just want you to read good poems every day. We want you to think like a poet. We want to get you writing.
Poets know the creative impulse is self-perpetuating. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/04/are-you-ready-for-the-pitch/</link>
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		<title>The Pitch – Rules of Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win this contest.
The Pitch appears quarterly, in spring, summer, fall, and winter, on the Poetry Northwest website.
To enter, fill in the information on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/04/the-pitch-%e2%80%93-rules-of-engagement/</link>
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		<title>Rick Barot: &#8220;The Poem is a Letter Opener&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the arrival of the Spring-Summer 2010 issue (v5.n1) of Poetry Northwest on newsstands and in mailboxes, we offer you this instrument of opening by Rick Barot, exclusively online.  &#8220;I wrote this poem ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrynw.org/2010/04/rick-barot/</link>
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