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Late summer, and even the gods need a little R&R. J. W. Marshall shares a few thoughts on this poem’s experience:
I find I’m liking local poems as long as they are not shackled to an incident. …
In recent weeks, we’ve been publishing tributes to Poetry Northwest founding editor, Carolyn Kizer. For additional features in the series, please visit here. Below, a letter from poet David Rigsbee recalling a moment with his …
Evan Klavon and Jane Wong of Seattle, Washington and James Bertolino of Bellingham, Washington have been selected by our staff as the finalists in our second online quarterly writing contest, The Pitch. The second pitch …
Iteration Nets
Karla Kelsey
Ahsahta Press, 2010
In the second movement of her sophomore collection, Iteration Nets, Karla Kelsey details the process of echo and alteration by which she remixes lines from authors including John Clare, Graham …
Editor Kevin Craft interviews the prolific poet and visual artist from the far northwest.
Derick Burleson is the recipient of the 2010 Richard Hugo Prize for poems published in the Fall & Winter …