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The Washington State Poet Laureate is Derek Sheffield, whose most recent poetry book is “Not for Luck” (2021), and here in ...

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...

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Jake Skeets’s new poetry book, Horses, examines the implications of climate change inside his tribal community and the ...

I have been that latecomer who missed the bus but never let go of the sound and colours of poetry. If attending literature classes or poetry dissection labs is a sine qua non for being a poet or a ...