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What do I believe besides what my body tells me?

DANA ALSAMSAM | Mosque Sheikh Zayed, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Recent Features

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...

by Staff
September 14, 2020

KAREN GREEN: Fix’d Habitation

The eyes + the masks = a confronting.

by Staff
September 14, 2020

Failure as Negative Space

Our actions ripple out into the unforeseen and unintended.

–Christopher Kondrich

by Staff
September 13, 2020

Line Cook // This is Just to Say: On Cooking the Plums

In which guest editor Tess Taylor pairs an episode of a literary podcast with a delicious recipe.

by Staff

poem of the week

KUNJANA PARASHAR
Amphibian

Published by Staff

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

September 28, 2020
Poems

RAE ARMANTROUT
Vigil

Published by Staff

We scroll pages
as if scanning thickets

September 21, 2020
Poems

MICHAEL MCGRIFF
from Questions for the Interrogation

Published by Staff

Is the blood moon stuffing ballots
into the low firs?

September 14, 2020
Poems

CAMILLE T. DUNGY
Ceremony

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When I came downstairs today
for breakfast, he was playing Lovely Day.

September 10, 2020
Poems

BAILEY COHEN-VERA
Port Authority Poem

Published by Staff

& then I might appear very suspicious
& then who knows

September 8, 2020
Poems

ANDREA BLANCAS BELTRAN
Dog Year in the Time of #45

Published by Staff

I scroll the void
of what we feed each other

September 3, 2020
Poems

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Features

Visual Poetry

Poets explore the intersection of word and image.

September 13, 2020
Features

On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 12, 2020
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Features

The Subvocal Zoo

A podcast featuring readings by and conversations with writers & poets.

September 11, 2020
Features

Line Cook

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

September 10, 2020
Features

Other Rooms

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

June 29, 2020
Features

Cinema Poetry NW

A series of poetry videos presented by Poetry Northwest.

March 2, 2020
Features

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
Features

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

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book reviews

September 18, 2020

An Edge Felt in the Body

Joannie Stangeland on the poems of Molly Spencer

by Staff
August 28, 2020

Apologize to the Leaves

Maggie Trapp on the poems of Ellery Akers

by Staff
July 20, 2020

How Insistent We Are to Return

Wendy Chen on the poems of Michael Prior

by Staff
July 13, 2020

Every Species Becomes a Metaphor

Frances Cannon's visual review of Kathryn Nuernberger

by Staff

Essays

Faith in the Particular

Published by Staff

"Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings." —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot

May 10, 2020
Essays

Touching Time: The Poetry and Performance of Charles Simic

Published by Staff

"History consumes. It takes away and does not give back."—an essay by Austen Leah Rose

April 14, 2020
Essays

commentary

Taking Measure: Martha Silano and Laura Da’ in Conversation

Published by Staff

"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
Commentary, Interviews, Recent

KAREN GREEN: Fix’d Habitation

Published by Staff

The eyes + the masks = a confronting.

September 14, 2020
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Helene Achanzar, Rae Armantrout, Taneum Bambrick, Cyrus Cassells, Sean Hill, Amit Majmudar, Dominica Phetteplace, Joy Priest, Dujie Tahat, Cody Walker, Daneen Wardrop, Shelley Wong & more

June 19, 2020

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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June 7, 2020

Black Lives Matter

Poetry Northwest stands in solidarity with all those who fight for justice and equity for Black lives.

by Staff

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A while back @poetrynw put out this poem I wrote about more or less having a mental breakdown in South America. I felt weird repping it amid the George Floyd protests & pandemic, but the shit is neverending. Check it out: https://t.co/ve2iZmvbJD
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Hello, I have an environmental frog-song/allegory out in @poetrynw. Gratitude to editors Keetje Kuipers & Bill Carty for trusting my work! I'm pretty excited rn but trying to act chill, anyway, please read if you like :) https://t.co/df0r8PiuH3
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Dennis Held’s Not Me, Exactly: Poems - https://t.co/ePAY4scJNZ via @terrainorg
Sublime writing from Spokane, Washington - so glad to read this review - to have this book in the world. @HumanitiesWA @ArtsWA @poetrynw @openpoetrybooks #PNW @auntiesbooks
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"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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