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

In Minneapolis

Aterdecer de enero / January Afternoon / Caminando en el viento de Boedo / Walking in the Winds of Boedo

On Translating Daniel Durand

Beast / Visit to St Mary’s Hospital, 1986

What my mornings look like off meds

Marriage: Mason Jar

Tern for Tarn

To the stranger who stole my bike

The Summer After You Die, I Steal a Magnolia

Bicycle Built for Two / Polish Flint

A Thing Too Much of Not

Dialectic

Gay Sestina

Bark, Archive, Splinter / Bark, Archive, Splinter / Bark, Archive, Splinter

My Inescapable Fate

Not the Almost-Right Word / The Man Who Discovered Uranus

Fine-Tuned Fetus Brain

local wood / blue lotus

From “L.A. Warming”

BROKEN LINES: A GATHERING OF EXILED POETS

Fellowship in Exile

I Offered My Hand / In the Camp / McDonald’s Money

فوق أعشاب المنفى / On the Grass of Exile

جنة خربة / Slant Heaven / ماذا تعمل؟ / What Do You do? / تعيش / Abide

საკუთარი თავის დეკოლონიზაცია / Decolonizing the Self

في الحمام / In the Bathroom / في الحرب / In Wartime

أعود نجمع قطع وجهي كل صباح / Each Morning I Reassemble My Face / عربية تنمو على صدورنا كعفن أخضر / Exile Grows on Our Chest like Green Mold / خمس سنوات في المنفى / Five Years Have Passed in Exile

حزن من عجين / A Sadness Made of Dough

Hunyo 12, Sa Kulungan / June 12, in Prison

A Timeline of Exile

Tombstones Are Greedy

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER

that which joins and that which divides: on re-spelling / Writing Prompt / From “feeld” / From “from my window”

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