Into the tomb which houses my body which houses my life
what God took I can’t take to my tomb
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Civil Disobedience
Traveling as a pack into a cradle of doubt.
Alzheimer’s translation: Acrostic
Field guide to his message: a tree of
underripened fruit
The “No”
The no keeps coming back, the no
with its pathetic cry
Interview// “Observation as Practice, Comparison as Dispatch”: A Conversation with Brandon Kilbourne
“So natural history is very much a visual endeavor for me, and collecting data is ultimately an act of making observations with regards to museum specimens.”—Brandon Kilbourne
One Day Your Voice Will Become Mine: On Kalehua Kim’s Mele
“This book is a palimpsest, an encapsulation of influences. Here are the remnants we collect from our loved ones, from our days, the bits of dialogue, the stories, images, and small gestures that mold us. How can we mend and be mended? Through the attempt, the insistence, to forget nothing.”
Interview// “The Unfamiliar as Poetic Landscape”: A Conversation with Ally Ang
I love how the act of paying attention defamiliarizes spaces that I’ve been to many times before and makes them feel new and exciting.—Ally Ang
2025 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2025 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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