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  • Now I Feel I Am On My Way

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    Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle's Dunce

    November 13, 2019
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  • Summer & Fall 2019

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    Celebrating 60 years of poetry with Bruce Bond, Anna Maria Hong, Richard Kenney, Kenji C. Liu, Jeffrey Morgan, Allan Peterson, Kevin Phan, Michael Prior, Elizabeth Robinson, Cintia Santana, Mark Svenvold, Ellen Welcker, Yu Xiang | essays by David Rigsbee and Marian Janssen | & more

    June 16, 2019
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Lines / from the current issue

Where does anything begin?

RICHARD KENNEY | Love

poem of the week

STELLA WONG
Fu er dai

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I wondered how they found / my limping / tongue

November 18, 2019
Poems

TAIJE SILVERMAN
The Night I Slept with My High School English Teacher

Published by Staff

I want to begin this story where it ends.

November 11, 2019
Poems

ZEESHAN PATHAN
Ophthalmology

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Would it be fair / For the man to press the switch / Of departure?

November 4, 2019
Poems

KATRINA ROBERTS
Four Visual Poems

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FOR WHOM AMONG US HAS NOT FELT HERSELF a CIPHER

October 21, 2019
Poems

RICHARD KENNEY
Sword Upstairs

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Is this tower the chanter / of the sky’s pipes, or the dry syrinx / of the dead bird of the sky?

October 15, 2019
Poems

ALLAN PETERSON
I thought all life came from the alphabet

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You have my word on it hand on it / a book a note a dying sun behind a cloud

October 4, 2019
Poems

commentary

Line Cook // Sherwin Bitsui + Hearty Mushroom, Sweet Potato & Bean Soup

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

November 19, 2019
Line Cook

From the Edge of the Inside: the Drama of Paul Killebrew’s “The Bisexual Purge”

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Jay Aquinas Thompson on Oversound, Issue 5

November 5, 2019
Commentary, Other Rooms

Features

Features, Native Poets Torchlight Series

Native Poets Torchlight Series

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

November 14, 2019
Features

RICHARD KENNEY | Tender Precison

Featuring an interview, essay and three poems.

October 15, 2019
Features

On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 4, 2019

Essays

More of a River

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"How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?"

Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney

October 11, 2019
Essays

Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood

Published by Staff

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye

September 14, 2019
Essays

book reviews

October 21, 2019

Knots Pull Tighter Under Pressure

Bryce Emley on Sierra Golden's The Slow Art

by Staff
October 9, 2019

Framing And Unframing Until We Get It Right

Susan Moore on Julia Guez's In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame

by Staff
October 4, 2019

To What Safe Place

James Crews on Ted Kooser's Kindest Regards

by Staff
September 10, 2019

The Piecewise Way We Remember

Brandon Rushton on Peter Twal's Our Earliest Tattoos

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June 21, 2019

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If you're in Seattle, be sure to catch Ruefle's reading @SeaArtsLectures this Thursday, Nov. 21 (you may even spy Bates at the scene). 😍
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