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when no one looks / both poets & children grieve / the shifting contours // of cathedrals

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A cover of Solmaz Sharif's poetry collection "CUSTOMS" with the title in black bold letters on the top followed by a red cover.
June 18, 2022

Embodied Placements

"Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity."

by Nanya Jhingran
May 4, 2022

Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields

"At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy."

by Gabi Graceffo
April 4, 2022

The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words

"Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination." —Woogee Bae

by Staff
March 24, 2022

Lips that Kissed Lips

The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets

by Gabi Graceffo

poem of the week

MEG DAY
Sex Education

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First I find your hip & then
the canopy opens above me

June 20, 2022
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Mend

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My Mama had the gift of hand sewing

June 13, 2022
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RYANN STEVENSON
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I was moving across the country for a man
and a job.

June 6, 2022
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CHAUN BALLARD
Two Poems

Published by Gabi Graceffo

And maybe she meant:
Every season is an inch

May 30, 2022
Poems

ANUEL RODRIGUEZ
Non-Finito

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I decide to share a photo online of my shirtless physique

May 23, 2022
Poems

CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA
Chubasco

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because today’s rain
carries traces of yesteryear

May 17, 2022
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SAL Essay Series

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April 4, 2022
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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

February 16, 2022
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

January 12, 2022
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Visual Poetry

Poets explore the intersection of word and image.

December 9, 2021
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Clear Air Turbulence: Reflections on a Mountain as Memorial Ground

Essay by Kevin Craft for Poetry Northwest's Land/Form Series

October 31, 2021
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One More Thing

Conversations with contributors and other writers curated by Helene Achanzar

October 20, 2021
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

August 11, 2021
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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

translated and introduced by Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky

March 10, 2021
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November 15, 2020

book reviews

A cover of Solmaz Sharif's poetry collection "CUSTOMS" with the title in black bold letters on the top followed by a red cover.
June 18, 2022

Embodied Placements

"Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity."

by Nanya Jhingran
May 4, 2022

Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields

"At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy."

by Gabi Graceffo
April 7, 2022

A Hexagon of Green and Violet Stars

A review of Derek Sheffield's Not For Luck

by Gabi Graceffo
March 31, 2022

Fragments, Omissions & Further Reading

A Review of Susan Howe's Concordance by Susan Stringfellow

by Nanya Jhingran

Essays

The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words

Published by Staff

"Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination." —Woogee Bae

April 4, 2022
Essays, Recent

Persimmons

Published by Alexa Luborsky

"In English, speakers are actors and objects are acted upon. A persimmon is there to be eaten. For Powhatan speakers, it just as likely might not be there since...

February 14, 2022
Essays, Recent

commentary

Interview // “The Quiet Dark”: A Conversation Between Jennifer S. Cheng & Tanya Holtland

Published by Alexa Luborsky

"The dark, for me, is always a place of brimming; even when it is anguishing and unbearable. . ."

February 17, 2022
Commentary, Interviews, Recent

Field Note: Letter from Blackthorn Hill 

Published by Staff

"In the field, looking and listening, I am never not a little bewildered."—an essay by Hai-Dang Phan

February 16, 2022
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Current Issue

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Current Issue

Summer & Fall 2022

Featuring KB Brookins, Jenny Browne, Stacie Cassarino, Melissa Crowe, JP Grasser, Rage Hezekiah, Eugenia Leigh, Emily Pérez, Maxine Scates, Simon Shieh, Laura Villareal & more

June 20, 2022

New from Poetry NW Editions

THEOREM <br>Elizabeth Bradfield & Antonia Contro
THEOREM
Elizabeth Bradfield & Antonia Contro
THE LACHRYMOSE REPORT <BR>Sierra Nelson
THE LACHRYMOSE REPORT
Sierra Nelson
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THOUSAND GRIEFS <BR>Wei-Wei Lee
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THOUSAND GRIEFS
Wei-Wei Lee

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have the sublime joy of reading @lauren_hilger's MORALITY PLAY (forthcoming this summer from @poetrynw) and O! M! G!

the turns these poems make! the texture of thought! (and also the texture of experience, love me a voice that lets me know what it breathes upon)

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I write a lot about my father. Here’s one of my favs, Patrilineal @poetrynw

“this is how life begins:
Rain over everything like a set of           leather gloves   and   apron
            eight hours of breath     under mask       singed with soot.”

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