Fall & Winter 2011-2012 Now Available
November 19, 2011 – 4:46 pm

CODY WALKER has a mind of winter
KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN cleans up at Hanford
NEW POEMS: Sherman Alexie, Debora Greger, James Hoch, Richard Kenney, Amelia Rosselli and many more
EMILY WARN remembers Denise Levertov
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On Kizer: “Her Own Woman”
June 2, 2011 – 10:29 am
On Kizer: “Her Own Woman”

In recent weeks, we’ve been publishing tributes to Poetry Northwest founding editor, Carolyn Kizer.  We’ll post additional material throughout the spring: for additional features in the series, please visit here.  Here, we continue …

On Kizer: “The Substance of Song”
May 11, 2011 – 11:49 am
On Kizer: “The Substance of Song”

In the coming weeks, we will publish a series of tributes to Poetry Northwest founding editor, Carolyn Kizer.  We’ll post additional material throughout the spring: for additional features in the series, please visit here.  We …

Robert McNamara: “Thwarting the Barbarian”
May 2, 2011 – 1:29 pm
Robert McNamara: “Thwarting the Barbarian”

Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected
Christopher Howell
University of Washington Press, 2010
The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems
David Rigsbee
NewSouth Books, 2010
For more than twenty years I have been reading the poems of Christopher Howell and …

Theodore Roethke Prize 2010
April 18, 2011 – 12:56 pm One Comment
Theodore Roethke Prize 2010

Eric McHenry is the recipient of the Theodore Roethke Prize for poems appearing in the Fall & Winter 2010-2011 (v5.n2) issue of Poetry Northwest.  Read one of the prize-winning poems,“Deathbed Confession,” below, introduced …

Spring & Summer 2011
April 14, 2011 – 8:24 pm
Spring & Summer 2011

The Spring-Summer 2011 issue is a special one for us. In it we pay tribute to Founding Editor Carolyn Kizer, with previously unpublished material, and commentary honoring her place  in American letters.
Featuring: David Rigsbee, Daniel …