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

The Stair

Usher

Diptych

Romance

Down the Lane

From “Nudos”

From “Knots”

All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems

Utang Na Loob

Dialogues (Against Literature)

The Age of Unreason

Golden Hour

Epitaph as My Mother’s Daughter

Dagsmeja

Midday Thaw

Öppna och slutna rum

Open and Closed Spaces

Andrum juli

Breathing Space, July

Långsam musik

Slow Music

Det öppna fönstret

The Open Window

Markgenomskådande

Seeing through the Ground

Efter någons död

After Someone’s Death

Sukdu’a

Pharmhouse

Thorazine at 10:00 a.m.

The Last Film

Moving K. to Glendalough

English as a Second Language

The Plague on TV

Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper

The Usual Entertainment

Death Style 3.11.21

Death Style 8.17.20

Testament to the Agency of Man

Currency

Cape Song

Zarxio: Injection

Doxorubicin: Infusion

Child of Nature

Ever Vigilant: Julius V. Combs, MD

Alarm

Gravity

Dolphin

Pantheon

Breed Me

Untitled 1975–86

Untitled 1975–86

Untitled 1975–86

From “All Souls”

HARD FEELINGS • I say Scrabble as communiqué is Scrabble more like poetry.

On Spite: Folly Comes Daily

On Self-Pity: Go Eat Worms

On Panic: Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER

Writing from the Ashes: On the Burning Haibun

Dancing in the Dark

Writing Prompt

Contributors