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Poetry Northwest Illuminating poetry since 1959-- the northwest's oldest literary magazine.

Poetry Northwest was founded as a quarterly, poetry-only journal in 1959 by Errol Pritchard, with Carolyn Kizer, Richard Hugo, and Nelson Bentley as co-editors. The first issue was 28 pages and included the work of Philip Larkin, James Wright, and William Stafford. In January 2010, the Board of Directors appointed Kevin Craft the fifth editor of Poetry Northwest. Craft returned the editorial offi

ces to the greater Seattle area, reaching an agreement with Everett Community College to house and publish to magazine at Everett, where it will play in integral role in EvCC’s Written Arts AFA Program. Even so, Poetry Northwest remains an independent, autonomous nonprofit organization dependent on subscriber and community support.

“We are gathered here at this table of words” — Volume XIX | Issue 2 | Winter & Spring 2025 Cover art by Lukas and Zoë ...
21/12/2024

“We are gathered here at this table of words” —

Volume XIX | Issue 2 | Winter & Spring 2025
Cover art by Lukas and Zoë Phelan 🐑

Featuring .docx .ap_ .mpk .patrick .aetitia .lessley .moon Miriam Akervall, Dante Alighieri, Stephanie Burt, Julia Conner, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Mara Hampson, Sam Krieg, Cristoforo Landino, Małgorzata Lebda, Juj E Lepe, Marie Lundquist, Lauren Mackinnon, Mrityunjay Mohan, John Okrent, Daniel Phair, D.A. Powell, Omar Ramadan

The James Welch Prize — an annual award for two outstanding poems written by Indigenous poets — is now open for FEE-FREE...
16/12/2024

The James Welch Prize — an annual award for two outstanding poems written by Indigenous poets — is now open for FEE-FREE contest submissions, 12/15-2/15 🌨️

Two first-place finalists will be published in Poetry Northwest, each winning a $1,000 prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to read with the judge. Please check the link in our bio for eligibility information and submission guidelines. We can’t wait to meet the future prize-winners and share the gift of their writing widely!

Huge, heartfelt thanks to the contributors and partnerships who make this prize possible. See PoetryNW.org/James-Welch-Prize for the complete list of contributors.

Mark your calendar: the James Welch Prize — an annual award for two outstanding poems written by Indigenous poets — is o...
11/12/2024

Mark your calendar: the James Welch Prize — an annual award for two outstanding poems written by Indigenous poets — is opening for FEE-FREE contest submissions,
12/15-2/15 💌

Two first-place finalists will be published in Poetry Northwest, each winning a $1,000 prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to read with the judge. Please check the link in our bio for eligibility information and submission guidelines. We can’t wait to meet the future prize-winners and share the gift of their writing widely!

Huge, heartfelt thanks to the contributors and partnerships who make this prize possible. See PoetryNW.org/James-Welch-Prize for the complete list of contributors.

Read the full poem by Ariel Yelen at PoetryNW.org ⛴️Ariel Yelen is a poet whose work has been published in Poetry, BOMB,...
10/12/2024

Read the full poem by Ariel Yelen at PoetryNW.org ⛴️

Ariel Yelen is a poet whose work has been published in Poetry, BOMB, the American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and other magazines. “Taking the ferry to work like an adventurer” appears in I Was Working, published by Princeton University Press on October 8, 2024.

🌟 This Giving Tuesday, join us in celebrating poetry and the arts by supporting Poetry Northwest, a nonprofit literary m...
01/12/2024

🌟 This Giving Tuesday, join us in celebrating poetry and the arts by supporting Poetry Northwest, a nonprofit literary magazine dedicated to publishing the finest poetry and critical thinking in the 21st century.

📚 Why Donate?
Your contribution makes a lasting impact:
- Funds our biannual magazine, yearly books, and the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets.
- Garrett Hongo Internship for Young Editors of Color.
- Critics-at-Large year-long writing residency.

💌 How to Donate:
1. Online Donations – Give any amount to help us thrive.
2. Subscribe – Enjoy Poetry Northwest while making a tax-deductible contribution.
3. Honor a Loved One – Make a gift in their name and receive recognition in our print magazine.

Together, let’s ensure poetry reaches the widest possible audience. Help us keep publishing, sharing, and inspiring. 🌎
👉 Donate now and help Poetry Northwest continue its mission.


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Don’t forget to apply by November 15th for the Garrett Hongo Internship for Young Editors of Color! 💌Poetry Northwest is...
14/11/2024

Don’t forget to apply by November 15th for the Garrett Hongo Internship for Young Editors of Color! 💌

Poetry Northwest is seeking two versatile, dedicated, and independent interns to support the editorial team from January 27 – May 23, 2025. The internship is for people between the ages of 18-22. Applicants must self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latine, MENA, Asian, Pacific Islander, or a person of color. There are no education requirements for the internship, and applicants need not be enrolled in school.

Poetry submissions are OPEN ❣️ Let us read you! Send up to four poems through Submittable.
01/11/2024

Poetry submissions are OPEN ❣️ Let us read you! Send up to four poems through Submittable.

We’ll be open for general submissions of poetry for the month of November 🍂 Send us up to four poems through Submittable...
27/10/2024

We’ll be open for general submissions of poetry for the month of November 🍂 Send us up to four poems through Submittable. We can’t wait to read your work!

Read the full poem by Ye Hui, translated by D**g Li, on PoetryNW.org 🚂Ye Hui is an acclaimed Chinese metaphysical poet w...
27/10/2024

Read the full poem by Ye Hui, translated by D**g Li, on PoetryNW.org 🚂

Ye Hui is an acclaimed Chinese metaphysical poet who lives in Nanjing. His poems in English translation have appeared or are forthcoming in 128 Lit, The Arkansas International, Asymptote, Bennington Review, Circumference, Copihue Poetry, Guernica, Lana Turner, and Zocálo Public Square. The English full-length translation of his latest collection, The Ruins, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum.

D**g Li is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. He is the English translator of The Gleaner Song by the Chinese poet Song Lin, and The Wild Great Wall by the Chinese poet Zhu Zhu. His debut collection of poetry, The Orange Tree, was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize from the University of Chicago Press.

Applications for the Garrett Hongo Internship for Young Editors of Color are open 🌟 Learn more and apply at PoetryNW.org...
13/10/2024

Applications for the Garrett Hongo Internship for Young Editors of Color are open 🌟 Learn more and apply at PoetryNW.org/GetInvolved.

Poetry Northwest is seeking two versatile, dedicated, and independent interns to support the editorial team from January 27 – May 23, 2025. The internship is for people between the ages of 18-22. Applicants must self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latine, MENA, Asian, Pacific Islander, or a person of color. There are no education requirements for the internship, and applicants need not be enrolled in school.

Join us in celebrating this year’s Best of the Net nominees! Read the full poems on PoetryNW.org. The Best of the Net is...
01/10/2024

Join us in celebrating this year’s Best of the Net nominees! Read the full poems on PoetryNW.org.

The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing.

Samodh Porawagamage — “Letter from the Back Page at History Class”

Isabella DeSendi — “Buffalo”

Marisa Lainson — “Hypothetical Disasters”

Matthew Schnirman — “After June”

Michelle Peñaloza — “Huwag Kang Matakot”

Matthew Broaddus — “Playground”

“Whether crossing languages or borders, recounting addiction or migration, these poems revel in their sense of transpose...
03/08/2024

“Whether crossing languages or borders, recounting addiction or migration, these poems revel in their sense of transposed time.” ~ from ’ intro to the new issue of 🌞

Volume XIX | Issue 1 | Summer/Fall 2024 | cover art by ✨

Meet Cristina Correa, one of our 2024-2025 Critics at Large✨Cristina writes: “In my personal practice as a poet who is l...
23/07/2024

Meet Cristina Correa, one of our 2024-2025 Critics at Large✨

Cristina writes: “In my personal practice as a poet who is learning how to be a scholar, I engage in criticism as an act of care. As a critic, I endeavor to do my small part in encouraging a variety of readers’ compassionate and nuanced attention to writing and writers that exist robustly between worlds of experience (languages, genres, embodiments, identities, perspectives, geographies, and so on).”

I.S. Jones speaks at length with Detroit-based poet and educator Brittany Rogers about her artistic influences and the p...
14/07/2024

I.S. Jones speaks at length with Detroit-based poet and educator Brittany Rogers about her artistic influences and the process of writing, rewriting, and placing her debut. Read the full interview at PoetryNW.org 💐

Two chances to catch up with me (Poetry NW publisher Kevin Craft) this week on the road with Traverse: We’ll be dodging ...
03/06/2024

Two chances to catch up with me (Poetry NW publisher Kevin Craft) this week on the road with Traverse: We’ll be dodging (or perhaps stirring up) atmospheric rivers at the Jack Straw Cultural Center tonight— a hearty gathering of former fellows, each with brand new books. The event is hosted by laureate extraordinaire Kathleen Flenniken, and will also be simulcast / recorded (on Fb and on the JS YouTube site). Join the live studio audience or watch from the comfort of your underground bunker, as you wish! Round two is tomorrow: An Evening of Poetry at Village Books in Fairhaven, with friends and fellow scribblers Erin Malone (a former editor of Poetry NW) and Jennifer Oakes. It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to linger in Bellingham. Hope to see some old friends tonight and tomorrow, and raise a glass of Boundary Bay.

Our 2024 James Welch Prize winners are Kateri Menominee and Kara Briggs 🎉 Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize is awarde...
21/05/2024

Our 2024 James Welch Prize winners are Kateri Menominee and Kara Briggs 🎉

Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize is awarded for two outstanding poems, each written by an Indigenous U.S. poet. The prize is named for Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer James Welch, whose early poems were featured in Poetry Northwest and who went on to become one of the region’s most important writers.

FINALISTS:

Mary Leauna Christensen
Kinsale Drake
Max Early
Chris Hoshnic
Ibe Liebenberg
Casandra Lopez
Malia Maxwell
Michael Wasson

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Kalilinoe Detwiler
Danielle Emerson
Joshua Hinson
Santana Shorty
Yitazba Largo-Anderson

Meet Summer Farah, one of our 2024-2025 Critics at Large✨Summer writes: “I come to criticism from a place of equal parts...
30/04/2024

Meet Summer Farah, one of our 2024-2025 Critics at Large✨

Summer writes: “I come to criticism from a place of equal parts love and obsession - to spend time with a text is to learn its secrets, uncover part by part why my body arrives at whatever feeling it does after reading/watching/listening. If we are to believe art is powerful, meaningful, or life-changing outside of the self, critical writing must accompany it in order to track its company, its reverberations, its consequences.”

Read Summer’s first piece as Critic at Large out now on PoetryNW.org.

Read the full poem by José A. Alcántara on PoetryNW.org 🐋José A. Alcántara is the author of The Bitten World: Poems (Teb...
28/04/2024

Read the full poem by José A. Alcántara on PoetryNW.org 🐋

José A. Alcántara is the author of The Bitten World: Poems (Tebot Bach, 2022). His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Rattle, The Harvard Review, 32 Poems, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, & The Slowdown. José has received fellowships from Fishtrap, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Willapa Bay AIR. He won the 2021 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle and has been a four-time finalist for the Cantor Prize. José has worked as a bookseller, mailman, electrician, commercial fisherman, baker, carpenter, studio photographer, door-to-door salesman, and math teacher. He lives in western Colorado and wherever he happens to pitch his tent.

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