Las Cruces, New Mexico
Who begged me to be here beneath fields of open sky,
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
An Amulet for Life in the Deluge
In this deluge, no Noah, no ark. Should some hidden truths reveal themselves
After 33 minutes, 10 seconds and 200 days of annihilation and more
My grandmother was one of the women in the city that never grew old
Guana Bay
bludgeoning heat. susurrus natal sounds
only heard in water.
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
Interview// “Magic is Gone”: A Conversation with Jack Saebyok Jung
“You can think of words not just as tools for communication, but also as materials that you can play around with. And that’s probably one of the reasons why some of the wordplay became so prominent…”—Jack Saebyok Jung
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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