SIERRA NELSON The First Photograph
Hasnât there been a moment you never wanted to leave?
Author: Staff
December Instagram Challenge: #2013poem
2013poem: Poetry Challenge #2013poem Poetry Northwest (@poetrynw), Instagramers Seattle (@Igers_Seattle), and JUXT (@wearejuxt) invite you to finish off our series of poetry challenges by showing us what 2013 has meant to you or could have meant to you. Capture a quiet moment, distill a sweeping eventâanything goes. Challenge Rules 1. Submission dates: 12/1/13 – 12/31/13 2. Post a photo to Instagram and tag it with #2013poem and #ponwphoto 3. Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle & JUXT will pick the winner who will receive a year long subscription (2 issues) to Poetry Northwest 4. Unlimited entries 5. Any photos posted after the close of the challenge will not be considered 6. Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle & JUXT reserve the right to remove any photo deemed inappropriate for any reason 7. By participating, you understand that Poetry Northwest, Instagramers Seattle, & JUXT may reproduce and display your photo at future events and you will be notified if we intend to do so We are excited to see your #2013poem #WeAreJuxt #poetry #poem #Igers_Seattle #IgersUSA #Igers
November Instagram Challenge: #ToAutumn
As we wind down our Instagram challenges and prepare for the release of our  Fall/Winter 2013-2014 issue we’d like to invite you to respond to one of the most beloved poems in English, John Keats’ “To Autumn.” Poetry Northwest + Instagramers Seattle + We Are Juxt Poetry Northwest approached Instagramers Seattle and We Are Juxt to see how people would respond to poems visually and are working together for the rest of the year on a simple contest: monthly we post a poem and you have thirty days to respond to it visually. At the end of the month we pick our favorite snapshot and the winner receives a year long subscription to Poetry Northwest. November 2013 = #ToAutumn SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,     Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;   Conspiring with him how to load and bless     With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;   To bend with apples the mossâd cottage-trees,     And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;    …
Stephen Dunn: Five Early Poems
Periodically, we’ll take a tour of the Poetry Northwest archives, spotlighting vital poems and writers from the magazineâs fifty-plus year history. Previous entries in the series can be found here. This edition features early work from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn, a frequent contributor to the magazine during the seventies, eighties and beyond. Here are five poems as they originally appeared in Poetry Northwest, with the poetâs reflection on what these pieces mean to him now. Before I begin to say anything about these poems that appeared in Poetry Northwest many years ago, a few dating back to 1969, I want to thank David Wagoner for recognizing a quality in them worthy of publication. He was the first editor of an important magazine to regularly publish my work, and therefore helped develop in me a confidence that I might have a little something on which to build. It may not be possible, but I’m going to try to look at these poems as if they were written by someone else. âAffirmationâ is amazingly …
October Instagram Challenge: #ScarecrowPoem
Over the last few years Poetry Northwest has established a tradition of publishing theme based issues. Last spring saw The Science Issue. The year before saw TheCarolyn Kizer Issue. Influences, politics, and music were the focus of other themes. Our current issue is The Photography Issue. Itâs our largest one ever, clocking in at over 70 pages, and features poems and photos juxtaposed against each other in a way that emphasizes an aspect shared between the two art forms: the act of creating a good poem or a good photo is essentially, to borrow a phrase from Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, âsculpting in time.â They distill singular moments into small sustained emotional eternities that impact readers and viewers over and over again. Their perfectly balanced elements strike upon something that simply wouldnât exist if everything wasnât placed just so. Poetry Northwest + Instagramers Seattle + We Are Juxt Poetry Northwest approached Instagramers Seattle and We Are Juxt to see how people would respond to poems visually and are working together for the rest of the year on a simple contest: monthly we post a poem and you have …
Linda Andrews: “While the Rest of us Slept – Kathleen Flenniken’s Poetry of Witness”
Plume Kathleen Flenniken University of Washington Press, 2012 — In the Fall of 2013, Kathleen Flenniken was awarded the Washington State Book Award for Plume. — Where I live, in eastern Washington State, I frequently see evidence of the legacy of the Hanford nuclear siteâin ads for homecare services designed for Hanford nuclear workers, on Richland High Schoolâs âhome of the bombersâ mushroom cloud jerseys, and at the Tri-Cities airportâs âThree-Eyed Fish CafeÌ,â which alludes comically to deformed fish caught in the nearby Columbia River. A waste management company near Richland has applied to the federal government for a permit to truck up to 500 tons of Mexican radioactive waste over interstate highways for incineration at Hanford and transport back to Mexico. The reactor that John F. Kennedy dedicated in 1963 has been licensed to produce electricity through 2043. At the same time, Hanford receives massive federal funding as âthe worldâs largest environmental cleanup project.â In Plume, her second full-length poetry collection, Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken opens a view into Hanfordâs complex history, …
Andrew Zornoza: “Mirrors in the City of the Dead”
When I began to write my first book, Where I Stay, I was trying to erase the memory of certain photographs that had followed me my whole life. Â I think everyone has objects like that — letters from lost friends, dried flowers, old keychains — these objects stay in some box at the back of a dusty drawer. Â After years of struggling with the form of the book, I decided to just paste these photographs into the novel. Â But putting photographs with text is problematic — it disrupts the suspension of disbelief that is critical to any viewing experience. Â I came to an uneasy peace with this disruption — and learned to work with the space between the photographs and the sentences. Â This was important to me, a type of absence. Â I couldn’t have articulated that back then: I was just a kid. I had never been to Paris. Â Rodenbach, I would have thought, a type of malt liquor; Levy-Dhurmer, a jeans store at the mall. Â But, now, even after I’ve long retired Where I …
September Instagram Challenge #KasugaPoem
Over the last few years Poetry Northwest has established a tradition of publishing theme based issues. Last spring saw The Science Issue. The year before saw The Carolyn Kizer Issue. Influences, politics, and music were the focus of other themes. Our current issue is The Photography Issue. Itâs our largest one ever, clocking in at over 70 pages, and features poems and photos juxtaposed against each other in a way that emphasizes an aspect shared between the two art forms: the act of creating a good poem or a good photo is essentially, to borrow a phrase from Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, âsculpting in time.â They distill singular moments into small sustained emotional eternities that impact readers and viewers over and over again. Their perfectly balanced elements strike upon something that simply wouldnât exist if everything wasnât placed just so. Poetry Northwest + Instagramers Seattle + We Are Juxt Poetry Northwest approached Instagramers Seattle and We Are Juxt to see how people would respond to poems visually and are working together for the rest …
Allen Frost: “Robert Huff in Bellingham”
Birds carried fifteen years away Like an abandoned nest, put them To rest somewhere I couldnât see âRobert Huff, from âTraditional Red.â Twenty years is a lot of birds passing overhead and almost enough time to wear away the memory of one who watched below. There is scant mention of Robert Huff in Contemporary Authors which is also out of date. It doesnât even mention his death two decades ago. The four books published during his life are long out of print. Itâs as if heâs been left in a state of limbo. For weeks, Iâve tried to track down information on him, writing to artists, professors and students who knew him here in Bellingham, Washington. There are people who helped immeasurably in the making of this. Filling in the rest of the details I had to rely on my own detective work. In the summer of 1964, Robert Huff arrived in Bellingham, hired by then-Western Washington State College as an associate professor of English. He filled out a mimeograph Thumbnail Sketch form for recent …
#PoetrySnapshot August Instagram Challenge
Over the last few years Poetry Northwest has established a tradition of publishing theme based issues. Last spring saw The Science Issue. The year before saw The Carolyn Kizer Issue. Influences, politics, and music were the focus of other themes. Our current issue is The Photography Issue. Itâs our largest one ever, clocking in at over 70 pages, and features poems and photos juxtaposed against each other in a way that emphasizes an aspect shared between the two art forms: the act of creating a good poem or a good photo is essentially, to borrow a phrase from Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, âsculpting in time.â They distill singular moments into small sustained emotional eternities that impact readers and viewers over and over again. Their perfectly balanced elements strike upon something that simply wouldnât exist if everything wasnât placed just so. Poetry Northwest + Instagramers Seattle + We Are Juxt Poetry Northwest approached Instagramers Seattle and We Are Juxt to see how people would respond to poems visually and are working together for the rest …