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

Self-Portrait in Granulated Sugar

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Mira with Sarcasm

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Mira’s Over It

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Mira Should Have Known Better

I Was Lt. Uhura

epithalamelegy

Trans/figuration

Trans/lucency

Definitely Not a Trap Door

Going Ahead with Rats

The Dream Incarnate

Snake, with My Name

Sa Antipolo Makikita ang Isang Museo

In Antipolo, You Can Find a Museum

Sa Antipolo Walang Estadistika ng Pagpapatiwakal

In Antipolo, There Are No Statistics on Suicide

The Swan, No. 6 (Hilma af Klint)

No. 21

The Early Years

Amazing Adventure

The Holy Sacrament of Repression

Arrival in Montpellier

The Last Catalogue

The Brainfever Bird, Confused by Seasons

Some Words to the Close and Holy Darkness

The Death of the Humanities

Poet

Dancing to the Hours

Pecan in Its Shell

Water from an Urn

Going Home

E. ETHELBERT MILLER: FRIENDSHIP IS WHAT KEEPS US WHOLE

The Color of Ideas

Grand Army Plaza

Bronx Bajans

Spanish Conversation

Solidarity

Panama

Bronx Snapshot

Only Language Can Hold Us Together

Malcolm X, August 1952

Malcolm X, February 1965

Hi J, I Decided to Rewrite What I Sent to You

Is This the History of Air?

If My Blackness Turns to Fruit

Haiku Series

The Obit

From “The Gaza Suite”

Crossing the Jordan River into the New World

Acknowledgments

HARD FEELINGS • I’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.

On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt

On Self-Loathing: My Particular Involvement

Contributors