Congratulations to Tomas Tranströmer, long-awaited and much-deserved winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011. In honor of the occasion, we’d like to make available a recent piece by the Swedish poet, originally published in the …

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As summer burns to its dry end here in Seattle, we bring to a close our series of tributes to founding editor Carolyn Kizer with a look at a recently discovered poem. Featured in a …

I was reading some Alice Munro, buzzing out of my mind on P.G. Tips. Alice Munro was describing a woman in an Observation Car looking out at the vast Canadian prairies. “What the heck is …

Congratulations to Jane Wong, winner of the second installment of Poetry Northwest‘s writing contest, The Pitch.  Of her winning poem, Jane writes:
I was moved by Zach Savich’s final question in the prompt: “What makes timelessness count?” …