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Fall Newsletter
Photo by Kenzie Allen. Broadside by Myrna Keliher at Expedition Press
 
Shortening days mean one thing for me: time to put together the next issue of the magazine. I’ve got pages spread out on my floor like a bed of fallen leaves, and my brain is full of poems kissing each other at the edges. But while finding that perfect balance and order for the next issue might be dominating my waking hours, my dreams are still focused on the magic of the Welch Prize, whose second inaugural winner, Kenzie Allen, we’ll be celebrating this Friday night—read on for information about getting your tickets to the event. We’ve also got end-of-year subscription bundles available below. And for those of you itching to see your own work in our glossy pages, we re-open for submissions today! We hope you’ll join us everywhere and anywhere you can.

                                                                   --Keetje Kuipers, Editor
 

Join us this Friday, November 5!

Join our friends at Seattle Arts & Lectures for the final James Welch Prize reading celebrating this year's winners THIS FRIDAY, November 5. Presented in partnership with Hugo House, this reading will feature prize judge Sherwin Bitsui, winner Kenzie Allen, and a Q&A moderated by Jennifer Elise Foerster.
 
Tickets sold on a sliding scale. Get yours here.
 

20% off Poetry Northwest Subscriptions

Providing readers with a biannual dose of outstanding contemporary poetry is our labor of love, and subscribing is the best way you can support that vital tradition at Poetry Northwest in the coming year and beyond. From Nov. 7 - Nov. 12, a yearly subscription costs only $20 with our special discount. Reserve yours here for a limited time.

New Bundle Subscription with MOSS Magazine


Gifting season is coming up! And nothing says I-love-you-more-than-words better than a double whammy magazine subscription from two of the Northwest’s literary epicenters. 
Give your favorite writer or reader our new bundle subscription, which includes a year’s supply of Poetry Northwest along with multi-genre, place-based Portland powerhouse MOSS Magazine. Get your bundle subscription today!

Submissions to Poetry Northwest Re-open Nov. 1

 
Our Fall Reading Period for poetry submissions will re-open Nov. 1 - Nov. 31, or until we’ve reached our 300 submission cap. Be sure to submit soon—our poetry pile fills up fast!
 

                                            POEMS

"bore" by Hala Alyan

"Malibu Before the Woolsey Fire" by Stacie Cassarino

"Interlude: Sasa and Zamani" by Phillip B. Williams

"Carnival" by Griffin Brown

Three Poems by Faiz Ahmad

"An Altar" by Jane Wong

"Cohabitation" by Jessica Lee

"Our human shores" by Josh Foman

"Perishable" by Ina Cariño

"Morning Ritual" by Suphil Lee Park

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                                             PROSE

Cleopatra Mathis
 interviewed by Rachel Richardson in "Always a Condition of Urgency: A Conversation"

Geoffrey Nutter's Giant Moth Perishes reviewed by Randall Potts in "How Do the Words Dream Together?

Julia Anna Morrison's essay "A Forecast of Snow: Love in bpNichol's Blues"

Regan Good interviewed by Shriram Sivaramakrishnan in "Giving a Name to the Ineffable: A Conversation"

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage's essay "Repair"

Devon Walker-Figueroa's Philomath: Poems reviewed by Amanda Auerbach in "A Condition of Being Transformed

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                                             SERIES

SAL Essay Series 

One More Thing

Land Form

Nov. 3Brooklyn Rail presents their 58th Radical Poetry Reading, featuring former PoNW contributors Danusha Laméris and Angela Narciso Torres virtually on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Pacific. Register here.

Nov. 8-13Portland Book Festival presents virtually this year, with in-person events on Saturday, Nov. 13, at Portland Art Museum. Tickets here.

Nov. 6-Dec. 14: Missoula Writing Collaborative hosts 2-hour virtual writing classes on Nov. 6, and then virtual 4-week weeknight classes with professional writers. Register here

Nov. 5: Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Sherwin Bitsui & Kenzie Allen virtually in a celebration of the inaugural James Welch Prize at 7:30 p.m. Pacific. Tickets here.

Dec. 3: Seattle Arts & Lectures hosts Rita Dove virtually at 7:30 p.m. Pacific Tickets here.

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