The Science Issue — now available
April 20, 2012 – 3:01 pm

As languages approaching the mysteries of existence and advancing the limits of human understanding, poetry and science have more in common than you may think. The Spring & Summer 2012 issue is devoted to the …

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David McAleavey: “Daylily season”
February 6, 2011 – 4:34 pm One Comment
David McAleavey: “Daylily season”

There’s both turbulence and calm in this piece, something like kneading bread dough. We’d been to see an emphatic production of King Lear with a gangster-era setting; the next day our clothes retained some whiff …

The Pitch (2): You Look Like A Clock To Me
January 24, 2011 – 8:00 am
The Pitch (2): You Look Like A Clock To Me

You Look Like A Clock To Me
Zach Savich
Roethke says: “I measure time by how a body sways.” Hey, it’s true! See my toothpaste tube, my Annie Oatie O’s, my new-heeled shoes—all show time. As time …

Carol Light: “January Walk”
January 2, 2011 – 5:01 pm 7 Comments
Carol Light: “January Walk”

“January Walk” began as a post-squall “nature walk” writing exercise, in hushed company with a–fishing now for a suitable collective noun: sord? siege? muster? ostentation?–of eighth graders. Breaking the silence meant yanking the whole skulk …

Jennifer Bullis: “Directions to Pt. Rupture”
November 22, 2010 – 10:56 pm 2 Comments
Jennifer Bullis: “Directions to Pt. Rupture”

Jennifer Bullis, the inaugural winner of Poetry Northwest‘s contest, The Pitch, writes of her winning poem:
I knew I would love writing to Rebecca Hoogs’s prompt, which calls for re-grounding in the language of physical place.  …

Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”
November 15, 2010 – 12:54 pm
Eric McHenry: from “The Lovelier As They Fall”

Last week, we featured the first of three takes by Eric McHenry on Robert Frost’s immortal “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”  This week, we bring you the second of these riffs.  The third appears as “Stay” …