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

Karma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror

Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones

there are no toothbrushes in heaven

even the rocks are dying

Arles, Whidbey

Watching Willie Hall Keep Time at Rosa’s Lounge

Snake Farm

Πεύϰο της Κύπϱου

Pine of Cyprus

Συκιά της Κύπϱου

Fig Tree of Cyprus

Κυπαϱίσι της Κύπϱου

Cypress of Cyprus

Θάλασσα της Κύπϱου

Sea of Cyprus

[A sickly crow] i.

[Waves rolling up] ii.

[Autumn crows] i.

To Be a Poet Tanka

Commuter Tanka

Tanka in a Faraway Land

女巫

The Witch

联系

The Connection

Chinese Hibiscus

Guinea Hen Weed

Mind

Poem for My Father

Found: Psychic State

Found: Louise, as Ekphrasis

Found: Diagnosis Notes and Recommended Treatment of Ailments Described by Single Women to Dr. Robert L. Dickinson Between 1883 and 1933

Home Words

Exodus

Untitled

From “Surgencies”

Nachtstilleben

After Platonov

Charity Balls

A Conversation with My Mother About the Bloodstains on My Shirt

I Read a Post That Said You Went Peacefully

The Law of Large Numbers

Elegy at Middle River

Montana Love Sequence

To Those Who Fly the Air like Birds and Walk the Earth like Brothers

Anahita Without a Face

Vessel with Two Feet, ca. 1000–800 BCE

RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE • These are not just poems; they are provocations, devotions, declarations.

Methods of Mischief: On Rigoberto González

The Luna Moth Has No Mouth

Cardinal Red

In Praise of Mischief

Oda al Bolillo

Ode to the Bread Roll

It’s Complicated

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