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 Walk in Tsaile

From “Disorient: Sister-Fugues & Assimilamentations”

Jarrett Moseley

The Memory of the Young

From “Sleeping with Bashō”

Sonnet Bernadette Mayer

Absolute Variations

Afternoon Notes

My Brothers, the Olmec

Alhambra

Loving the “I”

Bill Frisell

Mirror at Shalott

Sappho 58

I Have Slept in Many Places

Lineage Anagrams I

Lineage Anagrams III

Anna Mae’s Woodlawn Baptist Choir Director

Poeta en Nueva York

Tonight

Emily Dickinson

Inner Circle

The Dream Won’t Come True

Love Poem: Tulsidas

Love Poem: Hafez

Love Poem: Cavafy

Oneirology

That’s How Far I’d Drive for It

what lesbian porn has done for me

Fourth Wall Arpeggio

Old Pro

The Pitchman’s Sorrow Pitch

The Pitchman’s Joy Pitch

From the Sky

spring

OUR WAY HOME: JUNE JORDAN

A Poet for the People

Ghaflah

Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.

It’s about You: On the Beach

Moving towards Home

On a New Year’s Eve

Poem about My Rights

Poem for Siddhārtha Gautama of the Shākyas: The Original Buddha

Resolution #1,003

You Came with Shells

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