Coming Soon: The Photography Issue
May 15, 2013 – 8:27 am

Dear Readers, Spring is in full swing, and so is our next issue of Poetry Northwest, due to hit newsstands and mailboxes  in early June. We’re a little behind our usual schedule, but never fear– the …

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Stanley Plumly: “Something of the Sort: Full-bodied, paper-original, non-expedient correspondence”
January 27, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Stanley Plumly: “Something of the Sort: Full-bodied, paper-original, non-expedient correspondence”

We begin 2008 by featuring Stanley Plumly’s essay “Something of the Sort: Full-bodied, paper-original, non-expedient correspondence,” which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc: “On Leaving Home”
December 15, 2007 – 2:45 pm
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc: “On Leaving Home”

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s “On Leaving Home” appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2. The poem focuses on departures and those who are left behind. According to Le-Blanc, ” I left Chicago at 18 and somehow knew …

Eva Heisler: “Lover’s Manual”
November 15, 2007 – 2:26 pm
Eva Heisler: “Lover’s Manual”

For November we feature Eva Heisler’s “Lover’s Manual,” which appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2. The  poem is part of a longer series of prose poems entitled “Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic.” According to …

Christina Pugh: “Sebald’s Dream Props”
October 15, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Christina Pugh: “Sebald’s Dream Props”

Christina Pugh’s “Sebald’s Dream Props” appears in Poetry Northwest Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2. When asked to discuss her poem, Pugh writes, “‘Sebald’s Dream Props’ is part of a manuscript entitled Restoration, which operates according to a …

Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2
October 3, 2007 – 3:17 pm
Fall-Winter 2007-08 v2.n2

Stanley Plumly on poets & e-mail: “Need speediness is the enemy of style”
Letters from Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale
 Love Manual by Eva Heisler
David Mason channels Charles Bukowski
Rachel Hadas waits for a train
Plus: New poems by Oliver Rice, Joanna …