This hybrid essay is a literary "hangover" to Meghan McClure and Michael Schmeltzer's book A Single Throat Opens. Exploring both the pain and allure of alcoholism, it's a lyrical series of vignettes and memories. After the essay you'll find an interview with the authors about their unique collaborative process.
". . . sweeping the porch
I felt it the rye and salt
dry-roasted
wallop of honey wind. . . "
Read two new poems by Seattle poet Montreux Rotholtz, whose poems pay precise attention to language.
Portland poet Samiya Bashir's poems entwine science and love, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and aging, blackbody curves and real, live Black bodies. The three poems here are from her 2017 collection "Field Theories."
Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins' obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken's collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River.
