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

Editor’s Note

A rickety door, a back one or side, not stable

All of Life Is Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Wildfire

Cafe Atlantique

Spring Comes Early

On a Walk

The Speedometer Is Working Even When You Don’t Move

Travel Plaza Brochure

Meanwhile the Mind, from Pleasure Less

My Love You Died in My Dream Last Night

God

Case Study

The Compline

Wulf Ond Eadwacer

We

Wyn / Lāð

bambi, momma, god

a sudden hammering

Phusis

Allegory

The Quiet Ones

She Who Wrote

Letter to the Corinthians

Object Relations

A Coin Is a Map to a Beheading

United Disorder

NICOLÁS GUILLÉN: MAKER AND BREAKER OF FORMS

Introduction

LOS RÍOS

THE RIVERS

GUITARRA

GUITAR.

GORILA

GORILLA

LYNCH

LYNCH

POLICÍA

POLICE

LAS ÁGUILAS

THE EAGLES

Al Público: AVIO-MAMUT

To the Public: AIR-MAMMOTH

TONTON MACOUTE

TONTON MACOUTE

EL CARIBE

THE CARIBBEAN

A Waist of Open Wood: Visiting the Impossible with Nicolás Guillén

WORLD-WATCHER: THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF “ANNIE ALLEN”

“Exhaust the Little Moment”: Deliberations on Death and Dying

PraiseSong for Annie Allen

Memorial to Ed Bland

From “Appendix to The Anniad”

“Life for my child is simple, and is good.”

Beverly Hills, Chicago

“One wants a Teller in a time like this.”

beauty shoppe

intermission

Why We Celebrate

COMMENT • Though she’s often read as a metaphorical poet, studying Dickinson’s similes can help us to map our imagined communities of resemblance.

From “Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink”

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