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

I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

Sidewalk

Metonymy

Abuelo,

Pops Dead Four Months. Remembering Pops Taught Me to Float on My Back. Watching “Moonlight” on My Delta Flight After Leaving Abuela Ana’s Casket with Abuelo’s in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Bikin’ I’m Bikin’

You on a Table in Someone Else’s Hands

In Praise

A short note on writing a joyful poem

On Mindfulness

Some Notes on Vision

First of December

Slip

El Paso

Fire Bird

Becoming an Idea

1987

Finish Your Breakfast

Removal Act

Water of the womb

Some Things I Would Like to Forget about America

Matthew 6:28—Sonnets

Butterflies

Todesfuge

Todesfuge

The Anabasis of Godspeed

Fortune’s Wheel

Lipstick Considered

The Fifth of July, 2020

Comedy with Flutes

In the House by the Sea

Santa Tarantula

Mixed-Up Sestina

O God of Cuba

HARD FEELINGS • Perplexed is a soft word, charming. A dog turning its head to the side when it doesn’t understand what you mean when you say I love you. I was perplexed, and by this I mean I was stuck in the space between terror and awe.

On Perplexity: Chrysanthemum

On Boredom: How I Found Out My Parents Were Siblings

On Crestfallenness: A Pilgrim, Not a Tractor

RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE

The Breadth of Our Existence: On Kimiko Hahn

Cursive

Against Opulence

Convergence

Not Nothing Again

A Revelation with Yeats

Villanelle with a Line Borrowed from Bishop

Contrapuntal Opening with a Line from Millay

[Inside my body] ii.

Anaphora Using Wilfred Owen’s Line “If you could hear, at every jolt”

Nouns That Have a Religious Quality

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER • Working on a draft is such a solitary event that reaching out across decades and centuries is a lovely way to commune, hold, push back. Plus, I love a prompt.

Medieval-Style Sampling: The Glosa

Elizabeth’s Cabeza

“if ” is a conjunction

Writing Prompt

Contributors

Harriet Monroe & the Open Door