The Button
Sometimes I think every second I spend writing
would be better spent on something else.
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Migrant Life
The hyenas peer through the window. Their favorite
pornography is misery.
Eros and Sorrow
I came from this theft
of what cannot be mine
Say Less
I go to the archive to reconsider, to meddle, to not mind my own business
The Forest of las américas is Already Alive: On Christina Olivares’ Future Botanic
“If there is one thing Olivares believes is central for personal and collective liberation, it is the imagination. And it is through the body, the flesh and bones that allow us to dream and conjure and haunt and desire, that we can encounter the world and make it what we dream.”
Interview // “Demonstrating / Monster”: A Conversation with CD Eskilson
“The terrain of myth allowed me to engage in meaning-making: to claim and recontextualize monstrosity as a way of taking power back.”—CD Eskilson
PoNW’s Favorites | Spring 2025
Spring poetry is bountiful, with the season previewed here in staff favorites. In debuts, Late to the Search Party by Steven Espada Dawson (May, Scribner) has a true arc and …
2024 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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