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October 14, 2020

To Be in the Truth of Us

Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie...

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October 14, 2020

just want and the present / of its emergence, which repeats

Caryl Pagel on Kirsten Ihn's sundaey

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October 5, 2020

A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking

Nan Cohen remembers the life and writing of Eavan Boland

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September 21, 2020

Taking Measure: Martha Silano and Laura Da’ in Conversation

"The ambiguity of poetry becomes a gesture to the ruptured integrity of the question of who I am and...

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poem of the week

ERIN ADAIR-HODGES
I Have Cried Off All My Makeup

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I’ve forgotten what’s in the boxes
I markered with my name

October 19, 2020
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HELENE ACHANZAR
O desire, I grow my hair long

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All my life I’ve wanted
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October 12, 2020
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LAURA READ
The Fourth Wall

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October 5, 2020
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KUNJANA PARASHAR
Amphibian

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I was once-tadpole: water-breath, tailed, morphing

September 28, 2020
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RAE ARMANTROUT
Vigil

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We scroll pages
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September 21, 2020
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MICHAEL MCGRIFF
from Questions for the Interrogation

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September 14, 2020
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Visual Poetry

Poets explore the intersection of word and image.

September 13, 2020
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 12, 2020
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A podcast featuring readings by and conversations with writers & poets.

September 11, 2020
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Line Cook

In which Editor Keetje Kuipers pairs an episode of a literary podcast with a delicious recipe.

September 10, 2020
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Other Rooms

In which our writers examine noteworthy work being published in contemporary poetry journals.

June 29, 2020
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Cinema Poetry NW

A series of poetry videos presented by Poetry Northwest.

March 2, 2020
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Garrett Hongo: A Tribute

Five essays on Hongo's writing and teaching, an interview with Mark Jarman, and a new poem from Hongo.

February 29, 2020
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

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

February 1, 2020
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RICHARD KENNEY | Tender Precison

Featuring an interview, essay and three poems.

October 15, 2019

book reviews

October 14, 2020

just want and the present / of its emergence, which repeats

Caryl Pagel on Kirsten Ihn's sundaey

by Staff
October 7, 2020

Sugar, Lime & Salt

John Yohe on the poems of Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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October 5, 2020

so / many / connections

Zach Peckham on the poetry of Joshua Harmon

by Staff
September 30, 2020

Reclaiming Materiality

Greg Bem on the poems of Shin Yu Pai

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To Be in the Truth of Us

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Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine

October 14, 2020
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A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking

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Nan Cohen remembers the life and writing of Eavan Boland

October 5, 2020
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Taking Measure: Martha Silano and Laura Da’ in Conversation

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"The ambiguity of poetry becomes a gesture to the ruptured integrity of the question of who I am and where I come from."

September 21, 2020
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KAREN GREEN: Fix’d Habitation

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The eyes + the masks = a confronting.

September 14, 2020
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June 19, 2020

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Elizabeth Bradfield & Antonia Contro
THE LACHRYMOSE REPORT <BR>Sierra Nelson
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Sierra Nelson
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THOUSAND GRIEFS <BR>Wei-Wei Lee
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UPDATED: October submissions have reached capacity UPDATED: October submissions have reached capacity, so get ready to jump on Submittable when they re-open November 1st! Submissions close December 1st. ° After more than 60 years, we remain committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks and push readers to the emotional and intellectual edge of what poetry makes possible. Our new editor, Keetje Kuipers, recently spoke with Poets & Writers about her editorial vision for the magazine: "I’m interested in accepting poems that I struggle with, that I don’t understand, that I might even fundamentally disagree with in terms of either their craft or simply the argument that they’re making about the state of the world. I’m excited to take those chances and to make myself uncomfortable and make readers a little uncomfortable." ° Your first submission for the reading period is FREE. Send us your best poems, translations, prose, and visual artwork. Read the submission guidelines on our website. #litmags #pnwpoets #poetrynorthwest #poetrynw #poetrylitmag #poetry #getpublished
"Welcome to this wonderful new work by acclaimed w "Welcome to this wonderful new work by acclaimed word-image artist, Karen Green. Those eyes! They transmit a beguiling fusion of fear, steeliness, and empathy, asserting a self acutely alive behind its mask. In this series, the selfie happens as flash self-portraiture. Might a masked face actually unmask another version of self?   We lean in. The words open us to a kind of timelessness. Eighteenth-Century English meets the dialect of 2020. Words from hymns meet the teachings of Brahmins. The NOW is barely a heartbeat in history’s long continuum.  The eyes + the masks = a confronting. “Continue,” says a mouth replacing the “real” one. Continue inwards if you dare. Continue . . . not as you were, but as you are. What faces us is the face that is IN one’s face. Brave but vulnerable. Asking us to be the same." —Nance Van Winckel, Visual Poetry Editor View "Fix'd Habitation" on our website. • #poetrynorthwest #poetrylitmag #pnwpoets #pnwartists #multimediaart #maskart #maskup #covid_19 #visualpoetry
Here is the Summer / Fall 2020 Issue, featuring Th Here is the Summer / Fall 2020 Issue, featuring The Anxiety Folio, out in the wild. We are thrilled to see people enjoy this issue. A huge heartfelt thank you goes to our contributors, staff, and of course, our audience of readers and subscribers. You all make this success, this beautiful, tangible feat, possible. Photo credits go to @dujietahat @poetshelley and @writer.sejones respectively.
Wei-Wei Lee is the 2019/2020 Youth Poet Laureate o Wei-Wei Lee is the 2019/2020 Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle. Lee was born in San Gabriel, California, but grew up one ocean away in Zhongli District, Taoyuan, Taiwan. To date, Lee has been Stateside for four years, and Seattle is the first US city she has ever known and loved. For her, poetry golds its beauty in language that comes from pure feeling and imagery. She set out to pay tribute to Taiwan and American in her work and hopes she duly honored both. Poetry Northwest is proud to publish her debut collection, In the Footsteps of a Thousand Griefs, the 5th book of poetry in the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series. Lee, a high school senior, writes poems that tackle all the things we never say. Lee’s poems span the distance between the United States, Taiwan, and all of the places in between, asking us to look at the way these places have impacted who we are. Available from @openpoetrybooks 📖📭 #poetrynw #pnwpoets #seattleartsandlectures #seattlepoets #seattleyouth #seattleyouthpoetlaureate
As we prepare to send our next issue off to the pr As we prepare to send our next issue off to the printer, we’ve been leaning back into poems by contributors to our last issue, especially this one by Amaud Jamaul Johnson. “Pacman” appeared in our pages and also in Johnson's recently published third collection, IMPERIAL LIQUOR (@upittpress), which, among other themes, takes on racism, violence, and the unique and sometimes painful challenges of Black fatherhood in America. As Elias Rodriques notes in his praise of the book over at @poetryfoundation : “‘Every / decade now I grow more quiet,’ [Johnson writes]. In the face of so many [police] assaults, Johnson gives up speaking altogether. The end of speech, however, is the beginning of poetry.” So let us start there, too, with words and actions that break against the white silence that has long allowed for the murder of Black men, women, and children in our country. Yes, read the poem, but don’t stop there. Please join us in donating to @nationalbailout @nw_community_bail_fund and @blklivesmatter
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