Hilary Plum: “In the aftermath of our language”—On Hayan Charara’s Something Sinister
“What honesty can speak power to truthiness?”
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Don’t Drink the Black Milk
Hilary Plum on Ghayath Almadhoun’s Adrenalin
As If We Had Been There
Hilary Plum on Ghassan Zaptan’s The Silence That Remains
Hello Goodbye Hello
Kevin Craft (Editor 2010 – 2016) Signs Off Most poetry readers I know chuckle wearily at the steady stream of “poetry is dead” articles that have appeared with astonishing tenacity in various venues, including The New York Times, these past few years. The authors of these articles agonize in some way or another over poetry’s irrelevance to modern culture: poetry is too abstract and obscure, they argue, too much an insider’s game, divorced from the real wants and needs (to borrow a phrase from Whitman’s early review of Keats’s poems) of actual bodies in the 21st century. But why should poetry worry over its relationship to popular culture? Must it be popular (or topical) in order to be vital, in order to sustain a reader, or fortify a readership? What happens to those who win (or live by) popularity contests in the contemporary cultural grind? We know all too well that the speed of the attention-getting news cycle is debilitating. Presidential primaries come and go, talk radio blathers on, discourse hardens, partisans lob grenades …
Honor Roll
 Poetry Northwest is grateful for support received from the National Endowment of the Arts. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov  We are grateful for the support of The Kinsman Foundation. Kinsman Foundation grants have supported publication of Poetry Northwest since 2007. Major support also provided by the Community Foundation of Snohomish County’s Robyn Johnson Poetry Fund. Poetry NW Honor Roll 2010 – 2016 Here’s a list of all the people who contributed some form of time, energy, money, or expertise to help keep Poetry Northwest going in the early part of this new century. We are deeply grateful for all your love and support. Editorial / Production / Web: Annie Ashley, Aaron Barrell, Jennifer Beebe, William Bernhardt, Cherisa Bertain, Zach Bivins, Justin Boening, Jay Bryant, Bill Carty, Jack Chelgren, Elizabeth Cooperman, Sarah Erikson, Steve Fouts, Kelley Frodel, Willie James, Connie Jensen, Matthew Kelsey, Kimberly Kent, Brandon Krieg, Chris Larson, Erin Malone, Per Nilsson, Katharine Ogle, Carol Peters, Emily Pittinos, Montreux Rotholtz, Lissa Sjogren, Kendra …