Spring-Summer 2010
BOB HICOK
is a One Man Band
DAVID SOFIELD
Feasts with the Gods
NEW POEMS
Linda Gregg, Paisley Rekdal, Sierra Nelson
GLINT OF GRANITE
Dan Lamberton gets serious about Heather McHugh
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From the Spring-Summer v3.n1 issue of Poetry Northwest, “The Political Issue,” we’re featuring Mary Jo Salter’s “Song of the Children.”
According to Salter, “‘Song of the Children’ is one of the few poems I’ve written that …
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 …
John Koethe of Milwaukie, Wisconsin is the recipient of the 2007 Theodore Roethke Prize for his poems, “On Happiness” & “Persistent Feellings,” published in Poetry Northwest‘s Spring-Summer 2007 v2.n1 issue.
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’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 …
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’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 …
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 …
This month’s feature on Seattle’s Kim-An Lieberman continues our Northwest Poets series in which, periodically, we showcase a poem by a poet living in this region.
Kim-An Lieberman’s poem, “Water Buffalo Tale,” appears in Poetry Northwest …
Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon is this month’s feature. We’re delighted to present his essay about the differences between writing song lyrics and poems, “Between Rail-End and Rail-End,” as well as the lyrics to his song, …
