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Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Every Empire Sings Itself a Lullaby: On Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something about Living
“Every repetition is an expansion, even a reinvention, of what an image or idea can mean or do. This shouldn’t be misunderstood as mere consolation, either.”
Interview // “On the Verbs of Looking”: A Conversation with Caitlin Roach
“The speaker of these poems is not only a subject of surveillance but also an agent of it, and I felt like the verb surveille had its finger on that relation of control that’s under tension in the poems, and on the relationship between a text and its reader that is always under some kind of tension.”—Caitlin Roach
What’s The Difference Between a Person and a Prayer?: On Saba Keramati’s Self-Mythology
“This collection doesn’t boast of excavating the truth, it only places its desires and secrets in the reader’s hands.”
2024 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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