Article Archive

Poet Keetje Kuipers, the new editor in chief of Poetry Northwest, shares her plans for bringing a sense of play and risk to the Pacific Northwest’s oldest literary magazine. 

The author of the essay collection A History of My Brief Body and the poetry collection This Wound Is a World on five journals that have published his poems and essays. 

“The uneven rhythms of grief don’t allow you to do or to feel life as you did before.” —Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Seeing the Body

Resources and ideas for fighting racial injustice and police violence, both on and off the page.

“What’s most fundamental is being able to listen.” —Lauren Russell, author of Descent

“I have a deeply unhealthy work-life balance in that the Venn diagram of those things is a circle.” —Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers

Jamie Marina Lau’s Pink Mountain on Locust Island, forthcoming from Coffee House Press on September 8, 2020.

The author of This Is One Way to Dance shares how notes—footnotes, codas, prologues, corrections—figure into her writing process. 

Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom, forthcoming from Knopf on September 8, 2020.