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

The Before Picture

Document

Sentences

The News

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Q&A

Kissing Cousins

Court-Ordered Group Therapy: Week 36

Good Chip

Vers Libre

Expression

Whatever You Need

Vanishing Point

Kingdom

Salt Sky

“Jerry wants to argue about the existentialists again”

“Other women’s husbands are complete sentences.”

“Must have let out a now-I’ve-seen-it-all sigh when,”

“The marriage behaves, the business behaves, so what?”

“When I imitate myself, I am a number of certain people,”

telling my lover not to evacuate the fire i am fighting

This Must Be That Place

Routines

Therapist Asks Me to Describe Grief

Wheat and Chaff Rhumba

Against Hope

The Leaving

Desert Hearts, 1985

skilled trade

I am not trying to be a man how

I am not trying to be a man how

My Hispanitude

We Play Paradise with Poppy Seeds

At Seventeen

From “blush”

Lynchian: a moving shadow

January Poem

Apologetic

Thrilling Conclusion

The Orchard

À Bout de Souffle

COMMENT

Destroying Time: On the Lasting Legacy of Larry Levis

FRANK X WALKER: KINFOLK

Beyond Black Appalachia: Affrilachian Evolution and Postcolonial Community in the Poetry of Frank X Walker

Affrilachia

Canning Memories

Mass Choir

Groom

One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead

Time Is Thinner than Glass

Thumb Wrestlers

Baptism by Dirt

Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima

God’s House

Marking Twain

Death Rattle

How to Teach a Child to Pray

Drive

“They Seeded Themselves”

The Editors

Contributors