IN THE NEXT ISSUE
Fall 2008 / Winter 2009
W.S. Di Piero fears ratso pigeons
David Guterson climbs a mountain pass
Rebecca Starks splits the difference above the shrug of clouds
Linda Bierds shreds the fragments of Venice
Plus: Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Bishop conspire about Seattle
And: New poems by Garrett Hongo, David Ciminello, Joanna Klink, P.K. Page, & J.T. Barbarese
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Issue Five: THE POLITICAL ISSUE
Heather McHugh dreams of a Texas songbird
Robert Pinsky visits the National Portrait Gallery
Jane Hirshfield considers Augusto Pinochet
Kevin Young gets the Hang Dog Blues
Mary Jo Salter says "My pen is angled too"
Plus: Stephen Dunn, James Longenbach, Brenda Hillman, Norman Dubie, John Koethe, & Eleanor Wilner.
And, in translation: Tomas Transtromer, Mahmoud Darwish, & Paul Celan.
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"Needy speediness is the enemy of style": Stanley Plumly on the belles lettres of e-mail
Letters from Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale
"Lover's Manual" by Eva Heisler
David Mason channels Charles Bukowski & Rachel Hadas waits for a train
Plus: Oliver Rice, Joanna Klink, Killarney Clary, Richard Kenney, Lucia Perillo, & more
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National Public Radio's "Oregon Considered"
Considers the revival of Poetry Northwest
A look at the magazine's history & current place in contemporary culture with host Allison Frost. Listen now
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