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    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye

    September 14, 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

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The word is a missile, the word is a button / which one will press or not press / after a squawk from the Bakelite phone.

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MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the Words

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Here they are the words fluttering in the mind

September 2, 2019
Archive, Poems

RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN
Saline Pulse

Published by Staff

my love / unwinding / the rope

August 26, 2019
Poems

KRISTEN STEENBEEKE
i go through phases

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sometimes i crouch like a creature in my house

August 19, 2019
Poems

MICHAEL PRIOR
Two Poems

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If a memory bears radiation’s / relationship to time

August 12, 2019
Poems

ANNA MARIA HONG
Maiden

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Other birds punctuate (our) song

August 1, 2019
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MEGAN FENNYA JONES
In the City We Sleep

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Probably most words / should be fully felt but never said

August 1, 2019
Poems

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Afterwords // “Make it as intimate as possible”—Solmaz Sharif at Seattle Arts & Lectures

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In conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

August 28, 2019
Afterwords, Commentary

Interview // Of Service: A Conversation between Paul Hlava Ceballos and Sarah A. Chavez

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On the occasion of Hugo House's Poets & Artists for Migrant Justice: Benefit Reading

August 10, 2019
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Essays, On Failure

Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems

First I thought Stet would fail to be a book, and now that it has failed to fail and exists in the world, its forms and processes are failing...

September 9, 2019
Features

On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 4, 2019
Features

2018 Year in Review

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

January 1, 2019

Essays

Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems

Published by Staff

First I thought Stet would fail to be a book, and now that it has failed to fail and exists in the world, its forms and processes are failing...

September 9, 2019
Essays, On Failure

A Small Dislocation

Published by Staff

"Kinnell’s poetry can show us that the cup of trembling . . . must be lived with, if anything that might assemble itself toward joy could ever possibly be...

August 22, 2019
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September 10, 2019

The Piecewise Way We Remember

Brandon Rushton on Peter Twal's Our Earliest Tattoos

by Staff
June 4, 2019

With What Words; With What Silence?

Maia Evrona on the Correspondence of Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan

by Staff
April 24, 2019

Liberty Through Diction

Samar Abulhassan on Anna Maria Hong's Age of Glass

by Staff
April 15, 2019

That Other Oeuvre

Cassandra Cleghorn on Stephen Collis's Almost Islands

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June 21, 2019

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MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the WordsHere they are the words fluttering in the mindSeptember 2, 2019

DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA King’s ValleyJohn Wayne is watching / from his lacquered saw blade on the wallDecember 31, 2018

RODNEY GOMEZ Their Bodies a XylophoneLook at what happens / when you want to feed your family.December 31, 2018

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