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

Mask of Khonsu/Corn Mummy/Scribes

Grief Lessons

A Room of Its Own/Don’t Look Up/Cicatrix

Y./Y./L./L./I./I./K./K./O./O.

S is for ___, with a Line from Keats/Tangzhong, with a Line from Genet/Gunderson

smokes/the patient line

Orbit

Ode on Humidity

smudge

Enter Book/Enter Shadows/Enter Tears/Enter Genetics

two ships

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

The Pelicans Can No Longer Reach You/My Albatross

“There ain’t no preachers/b*itches in this park no more!” / In Which the Rapture Misses Bushwick

Innocence/Gay Marriage/The End of the Visit

LINDA GREGG: NEVER GIVE UP LONGING

A Poet of Magnitude and Intimacy

Untitled [“When I was eleven”]…

She Sang of Seeing

Acknowledgments

COMMENT

Poets of My Age and the Erotics of Influence

Contributors

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