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Sometimes I think I took my life / off somewhere down the road / and forgot to pick it up again— / it’s out there, tattered / bowler hat, upside-down / and full of snow.

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November 17, 2022

Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

by Staff
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Interview // “Emotional Realities that Expand in the White Space”: A...

"The constant translations and riffs were my attempts to understand my father."

by Claire Tuna
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

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

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I Had to Clear my Throat

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SUSAN NGUYEN
To be brave, I look to the daffodil

Published by Gabi Graceffo

To be brave, I look to the daffodil.
A stupid flower, I've always thought

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All of which is no matter. No physical. That’s just the way he played.

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JASWINDER BOLINA
A Story about the Antichrist

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The opposite of transubstantiation is a yeast infection

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Published by Staff

they taught each other how
long they could dangle

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Mother of

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Paintbrushes face down in the water cup
and the red tendrils reaching like the summer

October 31, 2022
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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

November 17, 2022
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

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

November 2, 2022
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 10, 2022
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One More Thing

Conversations with contributors and other writers curated by Helene Achanzar

July 17, 2022
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SAL Essay Series

Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series

April 4, 2022
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Visual Poetry

Poets explore the intersection of word and image.

December 9, 2021
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Clear Air Turbulence: Reflections on a Mountain as Memorial Ground

Essay by Kevin Craft for Poetry Northwest's Land/Form Series

October 31, 2021
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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

translated and introduced by Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky

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November 15, 2022

A Book That’s Not about Bees at All

Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, the Swarm

by Gabi Graceffo
A cover of Kevin Simmond's The Monster I am Today, featuring a purple background with the name of the text in white on the top middle left aligned.
October 24, 2022

I Had to Clear my Throat

"Speaking these poems out loud, you will hear the sounds that Simmonds was able to put on the page,...

by Nanya Jhingran
October 20, 2022

Sand, Pigeon Feathers, Sorrows, and Names

"Olzmann writes with a penchant for allegory and ethical dilemmas, but these poems avoid parable or pat answers." —Risa...

by Gabi Graceffo
October 17, 2022

One-Legged Bird

"The loneliness that drenches Burying the Mountain derives from rejection and alienation, but also from portent." —Angelo Mao

by Nanya Jhingran

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Field Note: Why I Write to Birds

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"When I can bring identification from field guide to feeling guide and into another's conscious as a fellow living being worthy of adoration, the work for that sentence or stanza...

November 17, 2022
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A Myth Against Empire

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