Ward
what allows you to see out
what separates you from what you see
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Two Poems
Burden wills on as
Conversation Piece
There is much to be said
on the way vine leaves
Field Holler
Behind bars in California,
Jon calls to tell me he is a member
Everything Was in The Throat of The World: On Jaia Hamid Bashir’s Desire/Halves
“Often in Desire/Halves, language is derived from the ways of the animal, reminiscent of letters in an alphabet wrought from Taurian head and horn.”
Because Pleasure Counts Bigtime: A Review of Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours
“Every poem feels deliberate, delivered by the poet with the confidence of an experienced singer, even as she overwhelms us with the method of surfeit (what is technically called “letting it rip”).”
We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost
“For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration.”
2024 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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