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

What Is the Measure

Desire Path: Sequoia

Desire Path: Near Equinox

Maroon

Till there were no stars

My First Orgasm at Main Street Baptist Church

James Dean with Pig

Interpellation

For My Niblings in Anticipation of Their Birth

REGIONAL ALL-STAR

2 HARD 2 LUV 2 YOUNG 2 DIE

A Wide Road to the Thin South

Out of Key

In Praise of the Classics

Autocorrect

A Certain Kind of Debt

Memorandum

I Took My Place

Human Factories

Combustible Mood

The Victorian on Edge

Is It Beauty That We Owe?

To the White Girl Who Scolded Me That Not Everything Is about Race

Clarity

Incognito

Familiars

On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s “Inferno”

On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s “Inferno”

On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s “Inferno”

The “Change” in Climate Change

Langue Pochée

Cratylus

Banjo, Dulcimer, Fiddle

Chain of Events

Viatge interior

Inner Journey

Body of a Cat

Prayer Circle

We Make Chia Pudding

WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN: THE POETRY OF JOYCE MANSOUR

Egyptian Enigma: Joyce Mansour

“Fièvre ton sexe est un crabe”

“Fever your sex is a crab”

“Il n’y a pas de mots”

“There are no words”

“Hurlements d’une montagne qui accouche”

“Shrieks from a mountain giving birth”

“Je suis la nuit”

“I am the night”

“Je veux dormir avec toi coude à coude”

“I want to sleep with you elbow to elbow”

Genève

Geneva

Rhabdomancie

Dowsing

Léger comme une navette le désir

Light as a Shuttle Desire

Séance tenante

Right Away

From “Trous noirs”

From “Black Holes”

Notes & Acknowledgments

Contributors

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