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

Restricted Fragile Materials

Ars Poetica

“Have You Ever Written a Poem about Death?” My Mother Asks

Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces

Matinee

Fable

Avenue of Plane Trees

dramatic monologue as Beatriz Ferreyra

Atonal Breakdown

Small Weathers

Elegy for a Marriage

MASH

I bled through the entire month of April

Against Distance

The Renaissance

Late and Soon

Mid-Thirties Square Dance

The Slow Leaving

[Untitled]

Meta-Ekphrasis I: Plasmata

Mother Metro

歧路行 第五章

Sidetracks V

歧路行 第九章

Sidetracks IX

歧路行 第十三章

Sidetracks XIII

歧路行 第二十四章

Sidetracks XXIV

Story Problem

Birds on Statues

Forward, Backward, Slow, Fast, a Sun Shone

In Times of the Most Extreme Symbols

In Her Last Phone Call

Highway Town

Catania

Nothing Major to Report

American Love Song

Essay on Boyhood

From “Abandon the Creeping Meatball: An Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise”

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER • I was relieved to learn I had inherited a lineage, as a Black poet, of writers who use persona as a historian would, to give voices back to the silenced or misunderstood throughout history.

It’s Not a Mask If You Wear It Right

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says,

Michael Receives Advice from Marceline the Vampire, the Queen of the Deadbeat Daddy Issues, on How to Cope with an Absent Father

What the Moon Said to Michael

Writing Prompt: Persona

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