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

Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time

& Somehow, My Grandpa Finds Places to Sleep after Japan Invades

Despedida for the Last Despedida

C] o [urse Listing: More Than a Notion

This Loneliness—: A Pornography of Riches

From “Sólo el ojo ve el azul”

From “Only the Eye Sees Blue”

As If from the Sea

Cenex se para de cara a la autopista.

Cenex stands facing the highway.

Todes recibimos la invitación.

We all receive the invitation.

Cenex deja Poseidón.

Cenex leaves Poseidon.

God-Country

In Body Sweet

Regime

Back Soon; Driving—

Stop Shaking

Fist and Palm

While Researching the Etymology of Punk, I Discover a Creation Myth Stitched into the Liner Notes

Ekphrasis on Nude Selfie as Portrait of Saint Sebastian

There’s No Trace of the Word “Transgender” in Adrienne Rich’s Biography

On Distortion

Canción de Marvel el Pato a su frágil cabecita

A song by Marvel the Duck for his fragile little head

Canción de los funerales

Funeral song

The Lucky Ones

Mothers

I Want to Die

In Search of the Miraculous

The Book of Yeezus

Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing

The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts

Remind me

Drinking for free

The breakup has me believing in god

WILL ALEXANDER: POET-AS-SPECTROMETER

Introduction

Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith

A Blaze of Riddles

Peripheral Terminology

Fragment: Blaze as Unknowable Drift

Mantric Blizzard as Space

Ghostly Bonding by Kinetic

Living Detritus

Inner Palpability

Lingual Alchemy

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