What Actually Exists
After I shimmied into these voluminous robes, I made a series of choices.
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Sluice poem
cyanic sunrise fluid flow
sculled a density entire
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,
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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