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The Poetry Issue

Reading 500 Poems

How we put together this poetry issue

by Thom Caraway

Dec 29, 2016

When Inlander Editor Jacob Fries asked me to put this section together, I had a pretty good idea how I might go about doing so. After serving as poet laureate for two years, and putting together Railtown Almanac, I have a good sense of who the poets in town are...

Reading 500 Poems

Ode to a Pomegranate

By Brooke Matson
Dec 29, 2016
Outage

By Pat Cason
Dec 29, 2016
What Spoils in the Sun

By Kathryn Smith
Dec 29, 2016
A Day Engraved

By James Decay
Dec 29, 2016
Explain: Rain

By Joe Wilkins
Dec 29, 2016
Sadness

By Saj Ravasia
Dec 29, 2016
The Varied Carols of the Season

Washington state Poet Laureate Tod Marshall on the value of poetry; plus, a new poem

By Tod Marshall
Dec 29, 2016
Winter Begins in Spokane, Washington

Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read reflects on the local scene; plus, a new poem

By Laura Read
Dec 29, 2016
A Beautiful Thing

By Fitz Fitzpatrick
Dec 29, 2016
Primal

By Lydia Buchanan
Dec 29, 2016
Sestina in Tongues

By Stacy Boe Miller
Dec 29, 2016
The Cloud Speaks

By Mark L. Anderson
Dec 29, 2016
Make Believe

By Ben Read
Dec 29, 2016
I Am From

By Elizabeth Grace Armstrong
Dec 29, 2016
I Wasn't Looking for a Metaphor

By Yvonne Higgins Leach
Dec 29, 2016
Poem in the Shape of an Existential Threat (for Philip)

By Mike Dragan
Dec 29, 2016
The beginning of our thing

By Rebecca White
Dec 29, 2016
Orion’s belt

By Emera L. Riley
Dec 29, 2016
My father, who art in heaven,

By Kaitlin Schmidt
Dec 29, 2016
Upper Thompson River in Late Summer

By Sarah Aronson
Dec 29, 2016

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