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I live in a state of near-perpetual distraction. When writing, I have to force myself to slow down, focus, and limit the diversions. However, this poem, “Notes Regarding Happiness,” was a little bit different. Instead …
Severance Songs
Joshua Corey
Tupelo Press, 2011
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Put anything in fourteen lines, and someone will call it a sonnet; although each poem in Joshua Corey’s third full-length collection, Severance Songs, shares that number of lines (often with visual …
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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I’ve loved Hopkins since I was in college, and over the years have often returned to his amazingly energetic poems and vivid journal entries. But it wasn’t until I was preparing to give a talk …
Editor Kevin Craft discusses Poetry Northwest, past, present, and future, with Catherine Richardson in the November – December 2011 issue of Poets & Writers. Here’s an excerpt:
Despite a brief hiatus, Poetry Northwest has been around …
