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

Guest Editor’s Note

Letter to Us, Younger

Wanderlust

Elementary Magic

the crop top quandary—dept. store edition

Changes

Instructions for Building Your First Time Machine

The Time Traveler Finally Falls in Love

so coffee is a laxative & i am writing this poem on the toilet

March

Her Grimoire

Skeleton Key

Gratification to the survivors of daily damnations

Eileen

How Did You Know You Were Trans?

As a child, I knew nothing about grief

Hindsight

Ars Poetica: Ambulthiyal Abecedarian

Orange Tree

Beach

Mother’s Mother

Scissors Like Caesars

Salt and Sea

Omen

this is how you send off a sixteen-year-old daughter you know you’ll never see again

Appi’s Lullaby

Girl Blood Ritual One

Girl Blood Ritual Two

母念 // 思母

Dispatch from the Edge of the Universe

Lana Del Rey on Country Roads

Tangled Braids

Prestige

boy laughs at my period-stained skirt

Closets Are Made of Midwestern Thunderstorms

Things not to do to a grieving mother

How to Awaken a Sleeping Language

Wild Blueberry Muffins for Beginners

Two Bills

Universal Truths

He Was Chaotic

the women in my family

Burn Theory

Notes for the Newly Winged

Middle School Dance

Where the Sky Is

Sycamore

Rain Song

The Sun, in Lagos

First

Ennui When Watching the Ocean

Lullaby of Jazz Land: A Found Poem Comprised of Titles from the American Songbook

Where’s My Moon?

Contributors

The Robinson Jeffers Tor House 2025 Prize for Poetry