Four Poems
Your words were the same true words
the village fountain spoke to us
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Sonnet Full of Endings
The magic wasn’t real and the girl is dead.
Two Poems
Grandmother would sing now and then while pulling yarn from a skein.
What’s That?
Night bleating out its last rights?
We asked too little of the gnaw
Allusion & Correspondence: On Translating Jorge Teillier
“The many threads of Jorge Teillier’s intertextual poetics present numerous productive points of impasse for a translator.”
A River Rushing Superimposed Boundaries: on Patrycja Humienik’s We Contain Landscapes
“Humienik is not so much interested in finding the origin as she is in exposing the spiraling path in and out of histories that cannot be contained by time.”
Interview// “Where was the love story?”: A Conversation with Jessica Laser
Jessica Laser’s third poetry collection, The Goner School (University of Iowa Press, 2024), performs the hilarities, heartbreaks, and attempts at healing of a generation. Academics and adolescents move toward the …
2025 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2025 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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