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  • Winter & Spring 2019

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    Featuring Don Bogen, Dawn Davies, Elton Glaser, Janice N. Harrington, Valerie Hsiung, Mark Irwin, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Dora Malech, Supritha Rajan, Brandon Som, SM Stubbs, Kary Wayson and more

    January 15, 2019
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What forest is there to run to, / other than the one within another's heart?

Leah Umansky | Come, Pioneer

poem of the week

MEGAN SNYDER-CAMP The Neighbor

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If I cannot tell you everything does that make what’s left myth?

January 17, 2019
Poems

BRUCE BOND AX

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Some of us are graves of our own occasion and carry that / to the end

January 14, 2019
Poems

MARK IRWIN How to gather it all up?

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It reminds how first life is not enough, then too much.

January 7, 2019
Poems

DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA King’s Valley

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John Wayne is watching / from his lacquered saw blade on the wall

December 31, 2018
Poems

VALERIE HSIUNG And Off They Went

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That’s what’s become of her land of exiles

December 26, 2018
Poems

JAMES WELCH Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

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Winds cheat to pull heat from smoke

December 24, 2018
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2018 Year in Review

A roundup of some of the best of Poetry Northwest in 2018.

January 1, 2019
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2018 Joan Swift Memorial Prize Poems

Poems by the 2018 Joan Swift Prize Winner and Finalists

December 19, 2018
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Not an Elegy

"Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet."
Image: "Dreams In Black and White", 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith

November 19, 2018

Essays

Thirty-One Tiny Failures and One Labyrinth: On Parenting and Writing

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by Oliver de la Paz | Contributing Writer

June 27, 2018
Essays

How to Listen to Water

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Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic

May 15, 2018
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December 9, 2018

The Hinge of Weather and Whether

Martha Silano on Jessica Goodfellow's Whiteout

by Staff
December 3, 2018

Objects of Love

Hannah VanderHart on Micah Chatterton's To the Living

by Staff
November 8, 2018

Burn It: Two Debuts in Review

Julia Bouwsma on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin and Erin Hoover’s Barnburner

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October 17, 2018

Who Will Carry Us?

Jane Wong on Nicholas Gulig's Orient

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Interview // Lines of Energy: A Conversation with Jeffrey Yang

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November 27, 2018
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Nothing Keeps Me Company! An Interview with Alice Notley

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October 25, 2018
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January 15, 2019

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JAMES WELCH Christmas Comes to Moccasin FlatWinds cheat to pull heat from smokeDecember 24, 2018

SRIKANTH REDDY Voyager, Book 3 (Chapter 6)Certainly life / burned inside him.September 26, 2018

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

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