Sluice poem
cyanic sunrise fluid flow
sculled a density entire
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Day Signs
Fishermen along the pier shuck a bucket of oysters.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Who begged me to be here beneath fields of open sky,
An Amulet for Life in the Deluge
In this deluge, no Noah, no ark. Should some hidden truths reveal themselves
Public Poems: On Reading The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
“Hemphill bends a live wire through an intimate tone.”
Docudocupoetics: on Erin Marie Lynch’s Removal Acts
“I write this from an unnumbered reread of Removal Acts.”
Interview// “The World Begs for Transcription”: A Conversation with Asa Drake
“I’ve wasted so much time assuming my own strangeness and how I might put others at ease. Whatever ecotone I live in—it is not the uncanny valley. It is a real and human place.”—Asa Drake
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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