Jonathan Johnson’s fourth book, May Is an Island (poems), will by published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in Fall 2018.  His poetry has been published widely in magazines, anthologized in Best American [...]

Sarah Jones is a poet and freelance writer living in Seattle. She is a Poetry Northwest staff member, and was an editorial intern with C&R Press. Before interning with C&R Press, Sarah was an assistant poetry [...]

Deborah Keenan ​Two Stones Pick up one stone. You can carry it. You can carry it a long way. Pick up the second stone. You can carry it. These are [...]

Laura Kasischke ​A Girl's Guide To Color* Do you remember pleasure? Your favorite sweater? A flattering scarf, a smart cap, a pair of stones dangling from your earlobes? What color [...]

Erika Luckert ​The Forgetting Curve By now, my memories are a slender deck less tarot cards than flash cards made before a quiz to quickly shuffle through. A fire escape, [...]

Natalie Giarratano Second-Hand Blues After Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Exhibit: “Sojourns” (Denver Art Museum) And when is it? When do we need these words the most? When bodies loom so large [...]

Ambalila Hemsell is from Colorado. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she is currently a Zell Fellow. Her poetry can be found in Riprap [...]

Cheswayo Mphanza ​Reprise             You're nobody until somebody kills you was the anthem peeling off my tongue. Dreams of being a man who tastes night with remains of sun tucked [...]

Pimone Triplett ​Spieden Island, San Juan's Boat Tour, Washington Among the many mannered spy toys rendered to make the viewer less visible to the viewed—e.g., binocs, mics, mini- cams, my [...]