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  • Visual Poetry

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    visual POEMS + ESSAYS about visual poetry + REVIEWS featuring visual poems

    June 4, 2018
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  • In Translation

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    POEMS in translation + ESSAYS about translation + BOOK REVIEWS featuring work in translation

    June 4, 2018
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  • Joan Swift Prize

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    The editors of Poetry Northwest are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2018 Joan Swift Memorial Prize: Anne Griffin.

    May 11, 2018
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to glory! they say. the bluster of kings.

Katie Prince | family reunion (the Norsemen return)

poem of the week

ERIN RODONI Growing Up Wild

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So many creatures slide from / our gaze, little flames of meeting.

June 18, 2018
Poems

KEVIN PHAN Two Poems

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Clouds are mostly gossip

June 11, 2018
Poems

VALERIE MEJER CASO Five Poems

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knowing that the mask is more an image

June 3, 2018
Poems

JESSY RANDALL Four Visual Poems

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Which is the best part?

May 28, 2018
Poems

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How to Listen to Water

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Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic

May 15, 2018
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The Biography of a Poem

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by Julie Marie Wade | Contributing Writer

March 28, 2018
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June 10, 2018

Don’t Drink the Black Milk

Hilary Plum on Ghayath Almadhoun's Adrenalin

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April 15, 2018

Adamant Animal Selfhood

Alyse Knorr on Sarah Giragosian's Queer Fish

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April 6, 2018

Thousands of Silences Fell

Joannie Stangeland on Melinda Mueller's Mary's Dust

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March 22, 2018

Help Me I’m Partial

Gabrielle Bates on Montreux Rotholtz's Unmark

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Line Cook // Gabrielle Calvocoressi + Cha Cha’s Dominican Chicken

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by Keetje Kuipers | Senior Editor

June 1, 2018
Commentary, Line Cook

Interview // Like a Trapdoor Opening: A Conversation with Ed Skoog

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by Jake Uitti | Contributing Writer

May 28, 2018
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Features

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ON FAILURE

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

March 20, 2018
Features

Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South

Essays and poems by Shamala Gallagher, Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Sarah Gambito, Tiana Nobile, and Ching-In Chen

December 13, 2017
Features

Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

October 8, 2017

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Winter & Spring 2018

Featuring John Ashbery, Catherine Bresner, Meredith Clark, Olivia de Recat, William Fargason, Dobby Gibson, Richard Kenney, Owen McLeod, Allison Morton, Alyson Provax, Elizabeth Scanlon, Sarah Sloat, Bianca Stone, & more

December 15, 2017

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In progress: the summer issue. Our friends at NWFF are teaming up with @chelseaweinerjetski for the Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April. Sign up now for a spot in Saturday's workshop! Featuring Shin Yu Pai and Gretchen Burger. http://ow.ly/slBi50h2KRG @circadias from the Winter & Spring 2018 issue

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MIA KANG Twin A presence at a border draws / the arm of the light February 19, 2018

KAREN AN-HWEI LEE Diophantine Love scarlet or not, shelter or none, / centriole and silk filament,February 14, 2018

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