Vasco
6 am or thereabouts and blue dislodges itself
from black
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Ode to Atmosphere
dear dairy cow
FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH PAUAHTUN
A commotion at the lake
in the center of our cul-de-sac
Three Poems
In the house no one dreams of contradicting the father
Interview // “the falling of everything that must go”: A Conversation with Susan Briante
“I’m suspicious of borders even on the page. I’m wary of the limits of tradition, expectation and genre. Who sets and maintains them? Who benefits from their enforcement?” –Susan Briante
Interview// “To Bear Witness to One’s Own Life”: A Conversation Between Hyejung Kook & Mia Ayumi Malhotra
“I began to enter a new way of inhabiting language, one that felt as fragmentary and elliptical as my experience of mothering did.”—Mia Malhotra
Interview// “On Forsaking / Invoking / Grieving”: A Conversation with Kelly Hoffer
“Naming grief might risk forsaking it, but naming can also be an invocation. I write about my mother and so here she is, brightening the pain I thought I put to bed.”—Kelly Rose Hoffer
2026 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2026 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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