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Our editors are pleased to spotlight this week’s work from regular contributor, friend, and family of the Windward Review and the People’s Poetry Festival: a Beat warrior for the people, a Water Protector at Standing Rock, a long-time activist for immigrant rights, often volunteering his time on the U.S. and Mexico border; a veteran and advocate for veterans’ health, an ally with the work of justice reform for indigenous peoples, people of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized peoples; an artist who was an invited guest to Havana, Cuba, with a special U.S. envoy of poets and writers at the 21st Festival de Poesia Internacional, 2017, and much more; thank you for fighting the good fight, PW, committing poetry on the way and back. Read some of his beat-heart work here on the spotlight, and order his gorgeous lyric embrace of the road, with his original photos along Historic Route 66 between The Motor Hotels of Central Avenue. And pick up his latest, hot off the international awards scene for LGBTQ fiction, North Beach and Other Stories; see below.
Indica on the Forenoon Watch Vague Undefined Formless Not here Yet, Not absent The calm of your face Three minutes Before Sublimation Like high desert snow Intoxication Ego drifts away On Indica smoke Cloudy We Dissolve into each other Feeding into traffic From the entrance ramp Drifting downstream With salt and silt And a thousand dry-land Wishes, hopes and dreams Murky Nebulous Smoke Dream We Become more By being Less  PW Covington writes in the beat tradition of the North American highway. In recent years, he has been an invited panelist at The People's Poetry Festival, a Featured Poet at the (Rio Grande) Valley International Poetry Festival, and a Juried Poet at the Houston Poetry Fest. In 2019, his short fiction collection North Beach and Other Stories was named a Finalist in LGBTQ Fiction by the International Book Awards. Covington lives in Northern New Mexico, two blocks off of Historic Route 66. Follow him on Instagram @BeatPW.
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