Neversmoker
Grieving, I walked all day. Downhill toward mountains
risen out of dawn and rising into false mist.
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
How You Leave
The night before driving to the mountain,
you want, very much, to be clean.
Life Imitates
We knew some of it was sculpture,
In the Building
In the building all’s being built in:
Interview // “Rewriting the Sky”: A Conversation with Monica Ong
“As I wrote, I was curious if I could transform my insomnia into a space of reconciliation, of staying in conversation with my discomforts and my ancestors until I no longer felt haunted but rooted.”—Monica Ong
Interview // “On The Mess(iness) of Affinity”: A Conversation with stevie redwood
“I do think it’s a poet’s job, a writer’s job, an artist’s job, to name what often goes unnamed; to render the familiar absurd.”—stevie redwood
Reading Orlando: Gender Queerness Across Time
“Like someone history whispers about.”
2025 James Welch Prize
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