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

Gratitude

If Upon Me in My Garden

Portrait of My Father Mocking Sammy Davis Jr.

From “Arden las pérdidas”

From “Burn the Losses”

The Apostle Paula

Lost Music

A Convolution of Astral Forces

In the listening room

From “Stretching Time Over the Sky”

From “carrying songs from the sky to crease the ground”

Julius Caesar

Icarus: A Self Portrait—1984

CODEX©

A Panel of Experts

Eroica 1

The Birth of Venus

Trot Song

After “Killers of the Flower Moon”

A Girl and Her Fireplace

Ars Poetica with Invocation

Code

Histories

The End of Childhood

Manuel Sánchez. Lavish

Manuel Sánchez. My Pregnant Wife Sleeps in a Boardinghouse Hallway

Manuel Sánchez. Our Demand

Everpresent Guest

Sink

Limerence

What You Need to Survive Vernon, OK

How to Incorporate a Town

Failing at the Exit Ramp, Icarus Jones Speaks True

THE CHORUS THESE POETS CREATE: TWENTY YEARS OF LETRAS LATINAS

One Poem Festival: A Twentieth Anniversary Folio

Carnivore

Searching

The Moon Is on Wellbutrin

God Was Not

As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game

My First Thanksgiving on Hispaniola

Instructions upon Arrival

While Everything Else Was Falling Apart

Transcendental Love Song

Pamela Franklin’s Neck

Transgender opera for perpetual metamorphosis

between our legs all manner of

Brujitas

Tempera at the Maria Novella Church

Negative Capability in El Salvador

strategic

flowers for Robert Waddell: an elegy

From “CANTARES”

What the Moon Said to the Poet

What Poetry Told Me

Screaming

Communion

In the Surgical Ward

To Shelter Itself and, Sheltered, to Conceal Itself

The Wake

/FOR / AFTER / JAN BEATTY /

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