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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The Music Issue
Featuring Poetry by
Eliza Griswold
Lea Banks
Supritha Rajan
Norman Dubie
Christian Wiman
Craig Arnold
Elizabeth Bradfield’s “The Shepherd of Tourists on a $20 Sunset Cruise Speaks” appears in the Fall-Winter 2006-07 (v1.n2) issue of Poetry Northwest and is the subject of this month’s feature. It is hard to imagine a place where nature has more of …
Meghan O’Rourke’s “Elegy, 1972″ appears in the Fall-Winter 2006-07 (v1.n2) issue of Poetry Northwest. Of her poem she writes: ” ‘Elegy, 1972′ was written after I had been thinking a lot about the fact that …
Dear Editor:
As a former subscriber and contributor, I was excited to receive a copy of the new Poetry Northwest in the mail along with an invitation to subscribe.
But no thanks.
Normally, I stay out of the …
For Dust Thou Art
by Timothy Liu
Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. $14.95
No bland heterosexist suburban poems of backyard sparrows here, Timothy Liu’s latest book, For Dust Thou Art, offers a smorgasbord of impudent isms: onanism, …
Phillis Levin’s “A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo” is one of the lead poems in the Fall-Winter 2006-07 (v1.n2) issue of Poetry Northwest. When asked to submit a few comments about the piece, she provided …
Yves Bonnefoy watches lightning
Meghan O’Rourke on grief in 1972
Phillis Levin finds an acorn and puts “on a hat like that”
Charles Wright: “The mind’s the affliction”
Walk the Line screenwriter Gill Dennis listens to Johnny Cash & …
In which a screenwriter listens to Johnny Cash and considers the origins of a sound
and in so doing sheds light on the subject of voice in poetry
by Gill Dennis
The first time I met Johnny Cash …
Eduardo C. Corral
This month we feature Eduardo Corral’s “Se Me Olividó Otra Vez” from the Spring-Summer 2006 (v1.n1) issue of Poetry Northwest. Of his poem the author writes, “a few years ago I came …
Richard Kenney
This month we feature a poem by Richard Kenney, “Muse Interviews,” from the Spring-Summer 2006 (v1.n1) issue of Poetry Northwest. Asked for a few remarks about the poem, the author writes: “The poem is …