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

Scimitar

Pitch Green

On Humility

Blue Noise

Kalsarikänni

There Is the Endlessness

Російський акордеон

Russian Accordion

Інструкція до читання

Reading Instructions

Маленька долоня

Little Palm

Молитва дорозі

Prayer to the Road

Dragon Back

Another Eclipse Poem

Punctuation

Space Jellyfish: A Parable

Mad Waitress

Trampa

From “People Who Look Like You”

Recovering Talkalakh

Animal Grief

Dear Stutter

Dear Stutter

Goddess of Death

Phat mela basumati patale lukau

An Hour

Old Bio in Snow

New Word

Two Women on the Shore, 1898

Three of Many Possible Explanations

Look at a River, Elisa

Failure to Exist

Fake Islands III

Sim Sim

Zora in Beaufort, 1940

Poem on Air (April)

33rd Poem on Air

How to Write a Yusefian Ode

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER

Ballad-ish: On Common Meter

Writing Prompt

Ballad of Salthill

Risk Management Song

THIS BE THE PLACE

A Budget Pool in East LA

Making Everyone a Poet

A 300-Year-Old Oak Tree

Contributors

Prizes