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

Fighting Weight

Doggerel

Bella Notte

play cousins

nominative determinism

Then Again

Apocrypha

Settlers

Supervision

Landform

Human Torpedo

Untitled Love Poem For…

June

Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall

Bargains

Self-Portrait

White Roses

Without Numbers

Just Like You, Mother

Romance

Romance

Podzim

Autumn

Krátká Báseň o Praze

A Short Poem About Prague

On Translating Václav Hrabě

The Canopy App

Quarterly Report

“Moon over Miami”

Siren Blues, Coloredtown, Miami

Due to Popular Demand, I Am Coming Out

Bell Canyon Still Life

From “Cœurs, comme livres d’amour”

From “Hearts, Books of Love”

On Translating Hélène Dorion

Anti Poetica

Post-Independence

After the Spring Uprising

Boats

Night Outside a Window

Letter

Letter

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

Ars poética del Cuidador de asnos, André Breton dixit

Ars Poetica from the Protector of Asses, André Breton dixit

On Translating Manuel Becerra

The Days of Our Lives

ode to a tardigrade

a little tenderness

Contributors