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All summer, we kept sending / up rockets for the pleasure of their afterburn.

JORY MICKELSON | Somewhere in Summer

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September 19, 2023

Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

by Staff
September 14, 2023

Interview // “Language as a Map to a Future Destination”: A Conversation with Ina...

by Aditi Bhattacharjee | Contributing Writer Ina Cariño’s Feast (Alice James books, 2023) is a fearless debut that combines...

by Alexa Luborsky
September 1, 2023

Interview // “The Voices We Carry”: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye

“Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things…” - Naomi Shihab Nye

by Alexa Luborsky
July 29, 2023

I Am Finished With History

"The hallowed argument goes: The artist has vanished but the art lives. Franklin adds: Art lives and so does...

by Nanya Jhingran

poem of the week

RACHEL BETESH
The Fine Air

Published by Gabi Graceffo

tasting of pine, clear
breath of it

September 25, 2023
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M. SOLEDAD CABALLERO
Two Poems

Published by Staff

When you escaped, I cackled like I was
the one who fled

September 22, 2023
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MATTHEW SCHNIRMAN
After June

Published by Gabi Graceffo

He won't stay up
when I need him so I stay out late

September 18, 2023
Poems

MEGAN PINTO
Solstice

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Somewhere the lake's shore
meets the overcast dark

September 4, 2023
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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

September 19, 2023
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2023 James Welch Prize

View our 2023 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in this online folio, featuring the full poems of m.s. RedCherries and Nicole Wallace.

July 20, 2023
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SAL Essay Series

Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series

March 30, 2023
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Two Languages / One Community,
Together in Poetry

San Francisco-based poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu co-founded Two Languages / One Community in 2015.

February 2, 2023
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

November 2, 2022
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 10, 2022

Essays

Field Note: Birds of Prey on the Highway

Published by Staff

"What I have discovered in my adult life, in my driving and commuting life, is that I love birds of prey."

September 22, 2023
Essays

Absence as a Silhouette: On Writing Becoming Ribbons

Published by Claire Tuna

"Erasure poetics . . . can continue to create that wedge, that finger-hole into seeing a typographic absence as a silhouette of a person or entity that once was."

June 19, 2023
Essays

book reviews

July 29, 2023

I Am Finished With History

"The hallowed argument goes: The artist has vanished but the art lives. Franklin adds: Art lives and so does...

by Nanya Jhingran
July 22, 2023

So You Are Here, and There Still

"Throughout Metzger’s poems, we experience an artist patching together experiences– present and past–, sometimes creating tectonic friction between them,...

by Nanya Jhingran
July 13, 2023

Part Animal Born of Lake: On Anne Haven McDonnell’s Breath on a Coal

An “other”-oriented text, Breath on a Coal, with its promiscuous curiosities, its investments in recovering our own animality, articulates...

by Gabi Graceffo
June 5, 2023

Dreamlike Transformation: On Gabriella R. Tallmadge’s Sweet Beast

". . . the speaker reckons with how to love and live in a marriage that is dissolving."

by Claire Tuna

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Interview // “Language as a Map to a Future Destination”: A Conversation with Ina Cariño

Published by Alexa Luborsky

by Aditi Bhattacharjee | Contributing Writer Ina Cariño’s Feast (Alice James books, 2023) is a fearless debut that combines their personal story with the political history of the Philippines...

September 14, 2023
Interviews, Recent

Interview // “The Voices We Carry”: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye

Published by Alexa Luborsky

“Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things…” - Naomi Shihab Nye

September 1, 2023
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Heather Christle, Ru Freeman, MĂłnica Gomery, Christian Gullette, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Rooja Mohassessy, Susan Nguyen, Laura Read, J. C. Talamantez, Rodrigo Toscano, & more

June 12, 2023
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Read the full poem by @megg_bean on PoetryNW.org. Read the full poem by @megg_bean on PoetryNW.org. Megan Pinto’s first collection, Saints of Little Faith, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in Fall 2024. Her poems can be found in Ploughshares, Guernica, Lit Hub, AAWW’s The Margins, and elsewhere. She is a 2022-2023 Artist Fellow with The Peace Studio, and has received support from Bread Loaf, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. Megan lives in Brooklyn, and holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson.
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