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    "Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown."

    Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet

    April 15, 2019
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    Featuring Don Bogen, Dawn Davies, Elton Glaser, Janice N. Harrington, Valerie Hsiung, Mark Irwin, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Dora Malech, Supritha Rajan, Brandon Som, SM Stubbs, Kary Wayson and more

    January 15, 2019
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KATHERINE MAURER | Living in the End Times

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DAN KAPLAN Whatever an Infinitesimal Dog Tells You

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Whatever an infinitesimal dog tells you about memory / begins with couture.

May 7, 2019
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DUJIE TAHAT a general sense of belonging

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Even the blue sky was generous

May 6, 2019
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ARIELLE GREENBERG Sitting Around Singing Kumbaya

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maybe this is a kind of stealing, too—

May 1, 2019
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KATHARINE COLES Missing

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The building between the buildings. A child, / Graveyards.

April 29, 2019
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ALDO AMPARÁN Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Concave

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a hollow, a cavity: a hiding place

April 15, 2019
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ELIZABETH METZGER Last of Kin

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In a dark home an instant more by choice, / the body.

April 9, 2019
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A Special Pre-AWP Edition of Line Cook: Camille Dungy and Cherry-Ricotta Cake

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March 14, 2019
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Interview //How a Phrase Will Find You: A Conversation with Michelle Peñaloza

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March 5, 2019
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Something Silent in Us Strengthens

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"In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world."

Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky

March 17, 2019
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My Dear collateral damage

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"That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved."

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February 6, 2019
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April 24, 2019

Liberty Through Diction

Samar Abulhassan on Anna Maria Hong's Age of Glass

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April 15, 2019

That Other Oeuvre

Cassandra Cleghorn on Stephen Collis's Almost Islands

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February 18, 2019

Shall We Play a Game?

Daniel Jenkins on Nomi Stone's Kill Class

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December 9, 2018

The Hinge of Weather and Whether

Martha Silano on Jessica Goodfellow's Whiteout

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2018 Year in Review

A roundup of some of the best of Poetry Northwest in 2018.

January 1, 2019
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2018 Joan Swift Memorial Prize Poems

Poems by the 2018 Joan Swift Prize Winner and Finalists

December 19, 2018
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Not an Elegy

"Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet."
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November 19, 2018

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Winter & Spring 2019

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January 15, 2019

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DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA King’s ValleyJohn Wayne is watching / from his lacquered saw blade on the wallDecember 31, 2018

RODNEY GOMEZ Their Bodies a XylophoneLook at what happens / when you want to feed your family.December 31, 2018

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