Poetry

For more than 110 years, Poetry magazine has been a monthly gathering space for poets and readers. The magazine publishes contemporary poetry and prose, primarily in English, and translations from contributors all over the world. Poetry has been published in Chicago since its founding in 1912.

Poetry

Stop & Look, Alicante

“soy llaga abierta”

“I am an open wound”

“engendro vacíos”

“I bring forth voids”

“escribo hasta perder el rostro”

“I write until my face is erased”

Unveiling

Entangled

Green Card:: Evidence of Adequate Means of Financial Support

Self-Portrait as Daily Sustenance

On Asking My Mother about Winter 1990

small teachers

Mad Honey

Finally Writing the Poem

The Fifteen-Year-Old Considers His Closet

The Boy with a Flower Behind His Ear

The Streets

“якщо пахне йодом—значить капітан попереду”

“If you smell iodine, the captain is nearby”

Autobiography of Thud

First Kiss/Under Capitalism

Trash

Trash

Trash

Winter

Pound and Brodsky in Venice

Semiotics

Reunion

BERT MEYERS: A GARDENER IN PARADISE

On Bert Meyers

Signature

They Who Waste Me

The Dark Birds

Madman Songs

Stars Climb Girders of Light

L.A.

Suburban Dusk

Lament

Homecoming

Driving Home at Night with My Children After Their Grandfather’s Funeral

These Days

With Animals

From “Postcards”

The Poets

A Gardener in Paradise

Acknowledgments

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER

In Praise of Shape Poetry

The Comeback of Speedos

Tigress Hugs Manchurian Fir

Writing Prompt

Contributors