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

God of Song

Bin by Bin

From Below

The World in Miniature

Sir

Cooking Gas Commercial

Consular Still Life

ithaca

Ластовици

Swallows

Пиперки

Peppers

Walking Around My Apartment Topless, Boston Wild Turkey and I See Each Other

Althea, it’s waning.

How low did you have to go?

The pale blue waters

[discharge day #1]

Egress

Egress

Oh I Thought You Knew, She Said, Dad Is Alive

Everything Will Be Fucked Forever / A Time of Peace Always Comes Again

Cultural Achievements

From “Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo”

From “Small Sargasso Mountains”

उषा

Dawn

पथरीली घास-भरी इस पहाड़ीी की ढाल पर

On a Stony Grass-Covered Hillside

एक आदमी दो पहाड़ां को कोहिनयं

A Man Pushes Two Hills

दन ककशमशीी-रेशमी, गोरा

The Day Raisiny

“czy świat umrze trochę”

“will the world die a little”

“moje serce jest władcą absolutnym”

“my heart is an autocrat”

“Tego roku jest znowu wiosna”

“It is spring again”

Saturday Class: Fever Dream (George, Breonna, and Trayvon)

Saturday Class: Gwendolyn Brooks and “We Real Cool”

Proof

LOVE’S AUSTERE AND LONELY OFFICES

Galvanizing Textures

Heedful Hold

Swift Glimpse

HARD FEELINGS • Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?

On Disgust: Gurgling Pits

On Fear: Radiant and Brimming

On Nostalgia: Ever Cleaner, Ever More Pillowy

Contributors