Not Here
Eventually, the dinner party topic is ghost-animals
Welcome to Poetry NorthWest
Vasco
6 am or thereabouts and blue dislodges itself
from black
Ode to Atmosphere
dear dairy cow
FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH PAUAHTUN
A commotion at the lake
in the center of our cul-de-sac
PoNW’s Favorites | Fall 2026
Some wonderful new titles to burrow into this hibernating season: Return Signal, by TR Brady (Oct., NYU Press) is a revolution in practicality. Brady’s poems question our notions of the …
Interview // “the falling of everything that must go”: A Conversation with Susan Briante
“I’m suspicious of borders even on the page. I’m wary of the limits of tradition, expectation and genre. Who sets and maintains them? Who benefits from their enforcement?” –Susan Briante
Interview// “To Bear Witness to One’s Own Life”: A Conversation Between Hyejung Kook & Mia Ayumi Malhotra
“I began to enter a new way of inhabiting language, one that felt as fragmentary and elliptical as my experience of mothering did.”—Mia Malhotra
2026 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2026 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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