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

Redeem

Make-Believe

A Prophecy

Transfer of Power

Hats May Perish

Let Me Go

Hope

Once, While Disemboweling the Chicken

Happiness Index

Regret

ASMR

ASMR

All Saints’

Seeing a UFO and Singing Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” into the Night at the Top of My Lungs

Respite

(Untitled) g111

Roll Call

reifen

tires

regenporträt

portrait of the rain

Currency

Babble

Sacrifice: I Was Named by the Orphanage

His Own Apollo

Chiaroscuro Spring time

Fosfor

Phosphorus

Pieśń tego

This song

Prawda obrazu

The truth of the picture

To Compare III

KARA WALKER: BACK OF HAND

Kara Walker: Back of Hand

Everyday around the world a woman is pulled into blue

Untitled (Blues)

The Future Is Black as a Pocket

My Enemy. My Love.

nail hard

MELVIN DIXON: I‘LL BE SOMEWHERE LISTENING FOR MY NAME

Poetic Kin: Meeting Melvin Dixon

The Possibility of Good Health and the Broadness of Vision

Getting Your Rocks Off

The 80’s Miracle Diet

Autumn Leaving

Place, Places

Spring Cleaning

And These Are Just a Few …

One by One

Mother’s Tour

Going to Africa

Hands

Grandmother: Crossing Jordan

Heartbeats

I’ll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name

On Melvin Dixon: Vivacity and Witness

Notes & Acknowledgments

Contributors