Contributors Share their Thoughts on Labor, Writing, and the Current Climate While creating this issue, we thought about labor as both noun and verb, tangible and intangible. We discussed how labor is often hidden from…
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Writers at Work, Part I
Contributors Share their Thoughts on Labor, Writing, and the Current Climate While creating this issue, we thought about labor as both noun and verb, tangible and intangible. We discussed how labor is often hidden from…
Terrance Hayes on 2018: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Re-reading American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Poets, 2018) at the end of 2018 was literally hard to stomach. I revisited the politically charged poetry collection on the day…
From the Riot Grrrl Movement to Sappho: a Review of Mother Winter by Sophia Shalmiyev
On a Sunday morning, I sat four rows away from a bored gate agent, phone pressed between my ear and shoulder—an attempt to ward off the woman trying to goad fellow passengers into a ‘dialogue’…
Tangible, Indelible Poems: A Review of Poetry Northwest (Summer & Fall 2018)
In a society where we constantly apply filters to images, swipe on them, and leave comments underneath them, the collection of poems in the Summer & Fall 2018 issue of Poetry Northwest offers uncropped views of the…