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

Crown

The Lyric Adam

Prodigal Daughter

Memories of No Consequence

Translation

Perennial

First Fall

I AM 17. I HAVE A LOT TO SAY.

fennir í flestra spor

snow in most tracks

lærdómsbrölt

learningnonsense

hugur hennar stóð hærra en almennt gerðist

her mind ranged higher than common happenings

Glory-of-the-Atlantic

Anoint

Still Life, Wusthof in Hand

My Father’s Nest

“Molothrus ater”

The Growing

& Then #4

Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately

Female CEO

마을

Village

함부르크

Hamburg

희미하게 남아 있다

It Faintly Lingers

Bakandamiya

Bakandamiya

On Distance

Artificial Animal

My Gender Is a Red Stiletto or Grocery Store Feet

Poem for Friends

The Handoff

For a Farrier

Mission

Ready to Lose to Salah ad-Din I

Ready to Lose to Salah ad-Din II

The Dome of the Rock Was on Fire

Walk ’Bout

Spotted

A Cup of Trembling

Straight Paths

Generic Indian Ennui

an instrument for making fabric by weaving

Road to Harissa

The Photographer

Jacob Riis Beach

HARD FEELINGS • Loneliness, then, means understanding—and accepting, though some days this is only slightly easier than others—that no one knows me. What’s so terrible about that?

On Loneliness: To You

On Ambivalence: To Be, but to Be How?

COMMENT

Remembering Gboyega Odubanjo (1996–2023)

Every Imagining of a Return Is a Myth: A Conversation with Kwame Dawes

Contributors