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

The Artist

Form and Feeling

Tin Bucket

Inside Yayoi Kusama’s “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies”

Blue

Jenner, CA

quiet night. new moon

[11. VIOLENCE: ANGLO-LINGUISTIC]

[12. COMMUNIST]

[13. EASTERN-EPISTEMOLOGICAL]

[14. STANDPOINT-EPISTEMOLOGICAL]

[21. TRANSFUSIVE]

[29. ARITHMETICAL]

On learning to hold oneself in the night

On the other side of longing

Afterword: Semantic Knots

Red Rum

Framed Pictures

The year the An*sazi Inn burned down

Ancestors’ wildest dreams

California

Memoir V

Notes after Watching the Inauguration

My therapist called it “climate despair”

T Shot #9: Ode to My Sharps Container

Snake Plant

From “Chronicle of Drifting”

PARABOL

ANTENNA

SKUNKPOSEN OG GHETTOBANKEN

THE BAG OF SKUNK AND THE GHETTO BANK

RAMADAN

RAMADAN

On Translating Yahya Hassan

HOW IT CONTINUES TO ASTONISH: THE POETRY OF ANN LAUTERBACH

Introduction

Door

Ingredients

Table

Door

Tally

Fly

Fable of the Barn

Untitled (Bicycle)

Untitled (Crow)

The Blue Door

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER • The sestina is the Bobby Knight of poetic forms: a tight sweater shoving words into predetermined zones.

Your Do-It-Yourself Sestina

“Envoi” of William H. Johnson’s “Nude”

Illustrated Octavia Butler Do-It-Yourself Sestina

Two Do-It-Yourself Sestina Starters

Contributors