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  • Coming Soon: Summer & Fall 2017

    by Staff

    June 1, 2017
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First Lines / A Preview of the Summer Issue

I start down the road but I'm the road.

Marty McConnell | Radio silence, WENZ, WJMO, Cleveland

poem of the week

William Brewer: “Oxy 40”

Published by Staff

"Think of the mason jar / we use to kill yellow jackets"

June 19, 2017
Poems

Ellen Welcker: “The Plan”

Published by Staff

"I tried for some radical joy yesterday."

June 12, 2017
Poems

Taliesin: “Nights” (translated by Katherine Robinson)

Published by Staff

"Do you know what / you are when your eyes are shut"

June 5, 2017
Poems

Richard Kenney: “And More Vivalding”

Published by Staff

"Green ferns bend a breeze / under summer’s awning"

June 2, 2017
Poems

Featured Essay

Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”

by Staff

"I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed."

April 2, 2017
Essays, Features

book reviews

June 14, 2017

Paul Legault’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2

by Jack Chelgren | Associate Editor

by Staff
June 4, 2017

Elizabeth Powell’s Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter

by Kary Wayson | Contributing Writer

by Staff
May 14, 2017

James McMichael’s If You Can Tell

by R.M. Haines | Contributing Writer

by Staff
April 27, 2017

Martin Rock’s Residuum

by Zach Savich | Contributing Writer

by Staff

commentary

Interview // Deborah Woodard on the Poems of Crysta Casey

Published by Staff

By Letitia Cain | Business Manager

June 7, 2017
Commentary, Interviews

Line Cook // Cathy Park Hong with Double Beet Spring Pasta

Published by Staff

by Keetje Kuipers | Associate Editor

June 3, 2017
Commentary

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Poems, The Subvocal Zoo

Alan Chong Lau: “where the lights are low”

doom's business / falls in a rag pile / lined with bones

February 20, 2017

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Big thank you to @ryanmolenkamp for "Cliffs near Capitol Gorge," which will be on the cover of our upcoming issue. Remembering when the talented @gabrielle_bates_ created the back/draft for our Summer & Fall 2016 issue. #love #visualart This week we've been featuring a selection of poems from WA129, an anthology of poems edited by Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall and published by Sage Hill Press. poetrynw.org. #poetry "Somewhere Between Is and Was" by @david_hytone appeared in our Winter & Spring 2016 issue. We love our visual artists.

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Sherman Alexie: “Home Improvement”"I never learned to fix anything"May 22, 2017

Paige Lewis: “The Saints Don’t Think of You Fondly”"It always comes / back to light."May 11, 2017

Kaveh Akbar: “Before You Left on Your Journey Which Has Kept You Away for So Long”"any part of me you remove / will grow back"May 9, 2017

Carl Phillips: “Darkening, Brightening”"a game, something someone / played, once."May 1, 2017

Tomás Q. Morín: “Nudist Colony”"...more than a pool / of smudges and parts."April 3, 2017

Joan Swift: “Sometimes a Lake”"In the background always a lake, / always the one you kept trying to...January 30, 2017

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