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

Cinema

Eureka!

West Altadena

Mother Emanuel Nine: Their Influence Was Wide

Easter Mass

I Love You, Love You Anyhow

Forsaken Elegies

Mount Grace Priory

Poussin

Chimeras

Πρωί Ζεστής Μέρας Με Άπνοια

Morning Hot and Windless

Μηρυκασμός

Rumination

while the coyotes are quiet

it’s always three in the morning

Kimberley Johnson

Leandra Michaels

I Carry a Wor{l}d Inside Me

Xibalbá :: Tunneling

“Nord er ikke håndfast”

“North is not final”

“i en annen tid”

“in another time”

“kniven suser lydløst”

“the knife soars soundless”

Late Autumnal, with Cockroach

According to the Study

Two Trees

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First Date

Kitchen Table, or When Mildred Bailey Sings:

Eulogy for the Cantina on Chapel St. that’s transformed into another bank

Hollywood Indian

How I learned to hold grief at such a young age

The Poets of Fire & Ink: An Introduction

dem Blessings #29

From Containment to Expansion: A Tenderloin Meditation in Two Parts

blue

While Reading “Sula”

New Black

If only

I’m not excited by you

Trans Loneliness

Notice

Too Much to Bear

notes on domesticity

when de uncola photographer instruct(s) me to smile

In 1989, the US Government Began Using Video Games to Teach Soldiers Warfare. They Admit It Ten Years Later.

the black dykes at 40

Re: New

Training Camp

Meta

YxzY

Weeping, Nina

Here

The Runaway

Untitled

how to read

For my love at the time of our ceremony

(Almost): The Essence of Everything

Trick Says

Dear future self

oracle

This Is Love

Family Reunion: A Personal History of Fire & Ink

I Give You an Onion: The Poetry of Duffy and Hill

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