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the teacher says / soul is like unicorn, a word / you can’t use in a poem

REBEKAH DENISON HEWITT | Unicorn Soul

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November 18, 2021

Interview // “We work the materials, but they also work us”: A Conversation With...

"The architect, Sarah Susanka, talks about how we humans enjoy compression and expansion. We like the limbo spaces between...

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November 12, 2021

The Underglimmer

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It Was Delicious

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Wherefore
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PAUL HLAVA CEBALLOS
from Banana [ ]

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to enjoy a banana
you need only the banana’s name

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My Top 5 Favorite White People

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Two live in Chicago. Two are teachers. Two are over six feet.

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They named the fern Resist.

November 3, 2021
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November 4, 2021
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Clear Air Turbulence: Reflections on a Mountain as Memorial Ground

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In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

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June 9, 2021
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Life List

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

June 7, 2021
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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

translated and introduced by Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky

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

February 15, 2021
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November 18, 2021

Reprogramming: On Justin Jannise, Paige Quiñones, and the “Program Era”

A Review of How to be Better by Being Worse and The Best Prey

by Gabi Graceffo
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It Was Delicious

A Review of Sandra Lim's The Curious Thing

by Gabi Graceffo
October 28, 2021

A Condition of Being Transformed

Lessons of Place in Devon Walker-Figueroa’s Philomath

by Gabi Graceffo
September 14, 2021

How Do the Words Dream Together?

Randall Potts on Geoffrey Nutter's Giant Moth Perishes

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November 12, 2021
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Interview // “We work the materials, but they also work us”: A Conversation With Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

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"The architect, Sarah Susanka, talks about how we humans enjoy compression and expansion. We like the limbo spaces between interior and exterior—porches and other exterior 'rooms'; we like the...

November 18, 2021
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November 26, 2021

Announcing the 2021 Possession Sound Reading Series Selection

Poetry NW Editions announces the selection for the 2021 Possession Sound Reading Series.

by Abi Pollokoff

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- multimodal literary writing and artwork (“literary” meaning language is a primary material)
- essays and creative scholarship on hybridity and multimodal writing/artwork
- collaborative work /collective authorship as a form of hybridity.
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Call for submissions from @fonograf_ed & @decanonproject! The De-Canon + Fonograf Ed. Hybrid-Lit Anthology will feature hybrid-literary works by women and nonbinary BIPOC writers. (1/2)

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Read "It Was Delicious," Nathan Blansett's review Read "It Was Delicious," Nathan Blansett's review of Sandra Lim's THE CURIOUS THING at the link in our bio. ⁠ ⁠ "The metaphysical poets, T.S. Eliot observed, “[felt] their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought […] was an experience.” To sit and eat alongside Sandra Lim’s mind, a mind poised against self-deception, tastes delicious. “My own timidity, pale as meal,” she writes, “will turn out to hold some ruthlessness, too.” Her readers and contemporaries are luckier for it."⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #poetry #amreading #litmag
Read "as echoes, as ghosts: Paul Hlava Ceballos an Read "as echoes, as ghosts: Paul Hlava Ceballos and Quenton Baker in Conversation" at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ "... research is an intimate practice! By acknowledging those who came before us we are communing with the dead. This makes me think how differently the past and passed on are perceived in US American culture versus many Latin American ones. Whereas in the US, ghosts are the stuff of horror movies, in my home, I lay flowers on an altar to keep my dead alive. "⁠ ⁠ #poetry #amreading #litmag
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Join us in welcoming our new Editorial Assistant, Join us in welcoming our new Editorial Assistant, Jesse Gonzalez (@vivagonzalez37)!⁠ ⁠ Jesse Gonzalez is a poet from New Jersey, by birth and by temperament. He holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and was a 2021 Anaphora Arts Fellow. He currently lives in Seattle. ⁠ ⁠ We're so happy you're here!
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