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

My Hair Burned Like Berenice

Toast

Learning to Paint

Positivity

Anti-Pastoral for Twenty-Faced Pathogen

En el Suelo

On the Floor

Aullido

Howl

Venado

Deer

El Único Día

One Day

Ant Ode

Charm

Ode to a Dolly Parton Drag Queen

At the Rainbow Cattle Company

Today

A Blessing

Sissy Aqueducts

Science Says

The Gospel of Mary

Madonna of the Chair

Mask

May

the root word of babble is babel

Portrait of a Boy on the Other Side of a Glory Hole

Colorete

Wundrkut Forever Ghazal

The Part That’s Left for You

Romer’s Gap

Flung Vase

Mother and Daughter at the Grand Hotel, Locarno, Switzerland

Migraine as Whale: A Triptych

Topless Modeling on New Year’s Eve

The Last Lophodytes

Tunnel to Canada

Jesus on the Iron Cross

Some Things Last

The Sky Keeps Surprises

COMMENT • What if one posits a lineage that begins with Brooks? That’s what Hayes has done here, and it’s a big deal.

Omit the Gate: On “Watch Your Language” by Terrance Hayes

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER

Fire, Paint, Pastels | Stones, Fans, Gum • ON WRITING WITH NONTRADITIONAL MEDIA AND SUPPORTS

Writing Prompt

Contributors

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