Cover image: Alan Chong Lau | Dust to Dust

In the year ahead, we’ll need poems more than ever. Luckily, the Winter & Spring 2017 issue of Poetry Northwest will soon be on its way to you, featuring a portfolio of poems and watercolors by Alan Chong Lau, new poems by David Hernandez, Christopher Howell, Michael McGriff, Kristin Robertson, Mary Jo Salter, Lisa Russ Spaar, Terrell Jamal Terry, Martha Zweig, an essay by Jeff Alessandrelli investigating hybrid poetics with David Bowie as muse, visual art by Jeremiah Moon, and more.