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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Esther Belin
I am bubbling with anticipation at the image of you reading through the varied poetic offerings contained in my first issue as guest editor.
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poemBy Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
She searches the ruins like someone
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poemBy Chad Bennett
I wanted to know what the grain in a photograph is, a film photograph,
Digital Features from Poetry
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poemBy Tarik DobbsIT COULD GO ON LIKE THIS -
From Poetry MagazineBy Hajar Hussaini May 25, 2022
I have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it...
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine Podcast June 2022
This week, Esther Belin and Orlando White talk about Diné thought and poetics, sound and breath in Diné bizaad, the Navajo language, and what it means, as Indigenous writers, to...
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From the Poetry Magazine Archive
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poemBy Wo ChanBeauty on earth so blue, even the cheese flowersa culture with no democracy... Yesterday (for example),I ate the same sandwich I eat every week: eggplantroasted in red pepper aioli, a focaccia jammed fullby arugula, capers sweaty in browned butter....
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poemBy Sharon OldsAs our daughter approaches graduation andpuberty at the same time, at herown, calm, deliberate, serious rate,she begins to kick up her heels, jazz out herhands, thrust out her hipbones, chantI’m great! I’m great! She feels 8th grade comingopen around her,...
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Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. More History
