Long journey: contemporary Northwest poets

Corners of the mouth / Jan Lee Ande

A remedy, withheld / Jan Lee Ande

Where we messed up / Ginger Andrews

Imaginary Islands / Judith Barrington

Souls under water / Judith Barrington

Piano / John Barton

Warhol / John Barton

Idaho compline / Bruce Beasley

Self-portrait in ink / Bruce Beasley

People walking in fog / Marvin Bell

"Why do you stay up so late?" / Marvin Bell

Grown men / James Bertolino

Lautrec / Linda Bierds

Memento of the hours / Linda Bierds

Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at eighty / Linda Bierds

Three trees / Linda Bierds

Van Leeuwenhoek, 1675 / Linda Bierds

House of Gathering / Anne Caston

Lessons from the Natural World / Anne Caston

Departures: last flight from Fairbanks / Anne Caston

Homebody / Kevin Craft

Janus-Igenuous / Kevin Craft

To err / Kevin Craft

Incense / Kevin Craft

Ice-fog / Lorna Crozier

Shadow / Lorna Crozier

Melanoma / Lorna Crozier

Walking into the future / Lorna Crozier

Night of my conception 1 / Lorna Crozier

Show up (and more) / Olena Kalytiak Davis

Francesca can too stop thinking about sex, reflect upon her position in poetry, write a real Sonnet / Olena Kalytiak Davis

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" / Madeline DeFrees

Precarious / Alice Derry

Do not forget my name / Candice Favilla

Seedtime / Candice Favilla

Capitulations / Candice Favilla

Bull's-eye / Tess Gallagher

Choices / Tess Gallagher

Not a sparrow / Tess Gallagher

Weather report / Tess Gallagher

Cleaning a rainbow / Gary Gildner

Happiness Jazz / Gary Gildner

Gig / Gary Gildner

Sonnet / Michele Glazer

Historic House, Astoria / Michele Glazer

Map / Michele Glazer

At the edge of everything crackling / Patricia Goedicke

Six short ones / Patricia Goedicke

Question on the floor / Patricia Goedicke

When Kali dances the Earth aroung / James Grabill

Walk she takes / Neile Graham

Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns / Neile Graham

Two blue elephants / Catherine Greenwood

Poem for the end of the century / John Haines

Legend / John Haines

For the Homestead friends / John Haines

Comb / Kathleen Halme III

Drift and pulse / Kathleen Halme III

What self / Kathleen Halme III

Lessons from thieves / Sam Hamill

New York poem / Sam Hamill

A day like this / Jerry Harp

Creature quotation / Jerry Harp

Cutting her out from the flock / Jana Harris

About these trumpeters that line my walls / Jana Harris

On the origin of Blind-Boy Lilikoi / Garrett Hongo

Meaning / Christopher Howell

First touch / Christopher Howell

New Orpheus / Christopher Howell

Steelhead almost / Henry Hughes

Guarding the dump / Henry Hughes

Together in the ice-storm / Henry Hughes

From the Winter of Bridges / Lawson Fusao Inada

Bird that fell to the ground / Laura Jensen

Four Summer outfits / Laura Jensen

Flag January 1999 / Laura Jensen

Robins in the dark / Laura Jensen

Three Cafes / Jonathan Johnson

Surplus / Jonathan Johnson

A winter fairytale / Arlitia Jones

Old age / Eve Joseph

Avalanche / Eve Joseph

Surrealism / Richard Kenney

Rear view / Richard Kenney

Pathetic Valley / Richard Kenney

Shall I compare thee to appearances? / Richard Kenney

Turbulence / Richard Kenney

Feast / Michael Kenyon

What (War 2003- ) / Joanna Klink

Open land / Joanna Klink

Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy / Joanna Klink

War / Patrick Lane / Howl / Patrick Lane

Light next door / Dorianne Laux

Can a fire burn forever? / Dorianne Laux

Easter, 1999 / Dorianne Laux

A measure of desolation : February 2005 / Ursula K. Le Guin

Watching a fractal set / Ursula K. Le Guin

Describe book blurbs to Nationalism / Tod Marshall

Describe wildflowers to ethics / Tod Marshall

God the Synecdoche in His Holy Land / Linda McCarriston

Public poem in the first person / Linda McCarriston

Orphan's consolation / Frances McCue

Let's say what's always left unsaid / Robert McDowell

1936 Hiroko's Passage / Robert McDowell

Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern / Colleen J. McElroy

Fourth of July, B.C. / Heather McHugh

Impolitic / Heather McHugh

Sampling / Heather McHugh

Back to B.C. / Heather McHugh

Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock / Don McKay

Stess, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure" / Don McKay

Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble) / Don McKay

Astonished / Don McKay

Conviction / George McWhirter

On sending out our kids again / George McWhirter

Girlfriends / Joseph Millar

Junkyard / Joseph Millar

Elders / Joseph Millar

Hansel and Gretel's father explains / Joseph Millar

Origami Dove / Susan Musgrave

Room where they found you / Susan Musgrave

Out of time / Susan Musgrave

From Hand Luggage a memoir in verse / P.K. Page

Ah, by the Golden Lilies / P.K. Page

Second letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project / Suzanne Paoloa

From Patient 6 / Suzanne Paoloa

Four swans / Greg Pape

Empress / Miranda Pearson

Anagrammer / Peter Pereira

Devil's Dictionary of Medical Terms / Peter Pereira

For the first crow with West Nile Virus to arrive in our state / Lucia Perillo

Viagra / Lucia Perillo

Voluptuaries / Paulann Petersen

Apologia Pro Vita Sua / Steven Price

Upon the deliberation of their Domestic Policy / Steven Price

Penmanship / Jarold Ramsay

Everything is a metaphor / Carlos Reyes

Skin / Katrina Roberts

Hunger / Katrina Roberts

Door / Stan Sanvel Rubin

Man on deck / Stan Sanvel Rubin

Travelling one way / Vern Rutsala

Looking for work / Vern Rutsala

New God / Jay Ruzesky

Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994 / Ralph Salisbury

We knew them / Ralph Salisbury

Bucket / Maxine Scates

Vice / Maxine Scates

High in the bamboo / Peter Sears

On the Empire Building Heading West / Tom Sexton

Swans, where we don't expect them / Peggy Shumaker

Forgbidden fruit / Martha Silano

Gauguin in Oregon / Floyd Skloot

Brahms in delirium / Floyd Skloot

Key / Esta Spalding

Mrs. Barlowe's Plum Tree / Esta Spalding

Train window / Esta Spalding

Watering the orchids / Primus St. John

Batey Tumba

Primus St. John

Neighbors / Clemens Starck

Girl from Panama / Clemens Starck

Grogginess / Lisa M. Steinman

Halting meditation / Lisa M. Steinman

On the boulders of Inanity / Sandra Stone

Light years / Joan Swift

Steelhead / Joan Swift

Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc / Mary Szybbist

Knocking or nothing / Mary Szybbist

Day Lady Di died / Sharon Thesen

You People / Nance Van Winckel

Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935) / Nance Van Winckel

Up the steps of the Capitol / Nance Van Winckel

Sonnet: "Sweetest bleeding ..." / Karen Volkman

Sonnet: "Bitter seed ..." / Karen Volkman

Sonnet: "Nothing was ever ..." / Karen Volkman

What the stones say / David Wagoner

Desire / David Wagoner

For an Old Woman at the Gate / David Wagoner

Thoreau and the Quagmire / David Wagoner

Appalachian Midrash / Emily Warn

Kuf: Mnemonic / Emily Warn

Mukilteo Ferry / Ingrid Wendt

Y / John Witte

After we received the News fo the 100-mile wind / Caolyne Wright

For one who prays for me / Robert Wrigley

News / Robert Wrigley

Letter to a young poet / Robert Wrigley

Kissing Booth / Derk Wynand

Reined in / Derk Wynand

Busted / Patricia Young.