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

Birdsong of Shaker Way

Flipping the Bird

Robben Island

Rise

Chicken for Breakfast

From “First Light: 88 Frequencies”

短歌四首

Four Tanka

We Must Be in the Harvest Again

The Ostriches

The Star

Lake Chateau

An Optimism

Mouth

Do No Harm/I Dream of Goat

October 9

January 31

February 14

Pandemic Feature: The Breakfast Club

A Children’s Story

As Bee

The Story I Tell

Memorial Day

Remembering the Owo Massacre and many others of its kind

Ìbàdàn

The Death of the Book

Of Cicadas

And Then the Sky Pulls Up in a Silver VW Polo

Lyric (Or, Schizoaffective Disorder)

Resignation

Temptation

サーカス

Circus

汚れつちまつた悲しみに ……

On This Bit of Soiled Sadness …

骨

Bone

曇天

Overcast Sky

Dear Sister Agnes,

For the Cult-Themed Party

Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)

Jenny Holzer—DYING SHOULD BE AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG (1978)

Bharti Kher—Confess (2010)

Ruby Hansen Murray

Lillie in the Reign of Terror

Eloquence

En la sala de velación: Septiembre

Funeral home viewing room: September

Intenciones de respirar

Intentions to breathe

Intenciones de respirar

Intentions to breathe

All my life I was a bride married to amazement

On Shame: In the Realm of Death and Awe

On Neediness: Midnight Chimes

On Despair: It’s All a Charade

Contributors

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