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

Rain, First Morning

Two Trees

Called

Self-Portrait as Masturbator

The Almost Love Poem of Eloise and Kofi

The Revival

Let Him Rest

Skeleton

Flesh

Skeleton

Flesh

Skeleton

Theory

Two Shabbats with Paul Celan

to touch a ghost

Unsafe Surroundings

Tyler Raso

The Lammergeier Daughter

Hummer

Self-Preservation

Wild

Theory of Mesh

My Airship

Paperweight

From “sky doc”

Imaginary Dad

I HOPE YOU LIKE BEING HERE WITH ME: THE WORK OF WILLIAM J. HARRIS

Introduction

For Bill Hawkins, a Black Militant

I’m No Martian

On Wearing Ears

My Friend, Wendell Berry

Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment

Haiku

Paper World

Why Did It

A Guy in a Black SUV

City Pastoral

You Look Beautiful

How We Met

Sympathetic Magpies

Alzheimer’s

A Winter Song

Nobody Wants to Write an Elegy

This Is a Billy Joe Harris Poem

The Beauty of Bareness

Alice Neel’s Late Self-Portrait

The Black Card Players: A Collage

An Interview with William J. Harris

The Gift of William J. Harris

My Kindred—In (Too Brief) Praise of a Joyful Poet

Acknowledgments

Contributors

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