2018 Year in Review
A roundup of some of the best of Poetry Northwest in 2018.
All posts filed under: Features
Featured essays, interviews and multi-part series.
2018 Joan Swift Memorial Prize Poems
Poems by the 2018 Joan Swift Prize Winner and Finalists
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
On Failure
In which writers investigate the practice of failure.
Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South
Essays and poems by Shamala Gallagher, Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Sarah Gambito, Tiana Nobile, and Ching-In Chen
Native Poets Torchlight Series
In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.
Native Poets Torchlight Series: Cedar Sigo
Four poems, with an interview by guest editor Jennifer Elise Foerster
On Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet: Complete Edition
Three excerpts, with an interview by translator Margaret Jull Costa and an essay on the book’s publication.
Native Poets Torchlight Series: Janice Gould
Five poems, with an interview by guest editor Jennifer Elise Foerster
Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment
“The shine of the river. Geese. Visitors putting their feet up. The wheezing chest.”