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"Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown."

Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet

April 15, 2019

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Winter & Spring 2019

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Featuring Don Bogen, Dawn Davies, Elton Glaser, Janice N. Harrington, Valerie Hsiung, Mark Irwin, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Dora Malech, Supritha Rajan, Brandon Som, SM Stubbs, Kary Wayson and more

January 15, 2019

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Lines / from the current issue

The limits of our world are the limits / of how we listen
BRANDON SOM | Till

poem of the week

ALDO AMPARÁN Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Concave

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a hollow, a cavity: a hiding place

April 15, 2019

Poems

ELIZABETH METZGER Last of Kin

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In a dark home an instant more by choice, / the body.

April 9, 2019

Poems

JOHN A. NIEVES If You Tilt It like So, You Can Almost See It (Caput Draconis)

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This is what we lose when we think / about losing.

April 3, 2019

Poems

JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACHOther women don’t tell you

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having learned what it means / to be apart

April 1, 2019

Poems

KENJI C. LIU Visa

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life / remains / in the shape / of prayer

March 27, 2019

Poems

CAMILLE DUNGY New Developments

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We used to be taught to carry our numbers.

March 25, 2019

Poems

commentary

A Special Pre-AWP Edition of Line Cook: Camille Dungy and Cherry-Ricotta Cake

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by Keetje Kuipers | Senior Editor

March 14, 2019

Commentary, Line Cook

Interview //How a Phrase Will Find You: A Conversation with Michelle Peñaloza

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by Jake Uitti | Contributing Writer

March 5, 2019

Interviews

Essays

Something Silent in Us Strengthens

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"In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world."

Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky

March 17, 2019

Essays

My Dear collateral damage

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"That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved."

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on...

February 6, 2019

Essays

Cinema Poetry NW

book reviews

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

by Staff

February 18, 2019

Shall We Play a Game?

Daniel Jenkins on Nomi Stone's Kill Class

by Staff

December 9, 2018

The Hinge of Weather and Whether

Martha Silano on Jessica Goodfellow's Whiteout

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Features

2018 Year in Review

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

January 1, 2019

Features

2018 Joan Swift Memorial Prize Poems

Poems by the 2018 Joan Swift Prize Winner and Finalists

December 19, 2018

Features

Not an Elegy

"Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet."
Image: "Dreams In Black and White", 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith

November 19, 2018

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Winter & Spring 2019

Featuring Don Bogen, Dawn Davies, Elton Glaser, Janice N. Harrington, Valerie Hsiung, Mark Irwin, Karen An-hwei Lee, Dora Malech, Supritha Rajan, Brandon Som, SM Stubbs, Kary Wayson and more

January 15, 2019

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