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

Eleven Legends

On CAConrad: Pan-Dimensional Change Agent in Vibratory Communion

7 Poems from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”

To Defy the Myth: On Sandra Cisneros

At Fifty I Am Startled to Find I Am in My Splendor

Cielo con sombrero

Sky Wearing a Hat

Year of My Near Death

El Jardín, End of Day

Leading Us to Revelation: On Rita Dove

Apology, with Interruptions

Evening Constitutional

Rose Moon Elegy

LeaveTaking

Tarnished Psalm

Unaccompanied Anthem

The Shortest Way Home: On Nikki Giovanni

Bay Leaves

Her Dreams

Her Dreams #2 (Runner-Up)

The Longest Way ’Round

Sunrider: On Juan Felipe Herrera

Mahler—Son Borne of the Street Song

For George Floyd Was a Great Man

From “Handful of Gravel, Voices & Mandalas”

Dawn Will Usher Me

On Angela Jackson: A True Daughter of the Great Migration

Caregiving

Gwendolyn Brooks Visits Russia in 1982 (Version II)

Poet

One Night ZZ Hill Sang at the Club Tupelo

On the Commuter Train

Epiphany

With the Wind in Your Hand: On Haki R. Madhubuti

ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

Claiming Language, Claiming Art V

So Many Books, So Little Time

Clearing the Forest, This Precious Coupling

Too Late the Truth

Admit a Secret: On Sharon Olds

Golden Shovel: Our Faithfulness

Addiction Sonnet

Day of Demonstrations

Apology

To You, from Your Secret Admirer

Mathematical Love Poem, with a Proof

The House of Sonia Sanchez

Belly, Buttocks, and Straight Spines

A Language of Ciphers: On Patti Smith

Worthy the Lamb Slain for Us

picasso laughing

jeanne d’arc

k.o.d.a.k.

Letter to Arthur Sze from Penngrove

Pe‘ahi Light

Forage

Midsummer

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