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

Wind

Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents

Lviv

The Bridge Before Dark

In Lieu of Flowers

Lowestoft’s First Pride, 2023

I’m the Passenger, Giving Wrong Directions on Purpose

What the Bedside Books Don’t Tell Me

On the Virtues of the Fly

Olive Tree by the Balcony

Wool Moon

Playing Split Fiction from Oaxaca, in the Kitchen

From the Precipice of Sexual Freedom

Zombie Dandelions

Little Baby

Mother and Child

The Last Moments of the Egg

lit

From “Theta”

Epistle: Come, Go Back, Child

Epistle: Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy

The Door of No Return has unlimited 5G data

coriolis effect

Not Allowed to Care

Poppy

Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do

Offo Achukma

What the River Said

Filling Up at Love’s

THE STARRY FIELD: A GATHERING OF NEW TWO-SPIRIT AND INDIGEQUEER POETRY

Introduction

Stood Up at the 2S Powwow

Friends with Ghosts

(re)(dis)connection

Ascension

Hare-Brained

The Other Foot

Do My Ancestors Keep My Name on File?

The First Land Animal

TED JOANS: SURREALLY I IS

Introduction: On the Poem-Life of Ted Joans

Jazz Is My Religion

Jazz Anatomy

Birdeath

Poem for the Dull Brainers

Africa

The Protective Grigri

The African Ocean

Unsurpassed U of Timbuktu

O Great Black Masque

Black Nailed Fetish Prayer

Surreally I Is

Flying Piranha

Erotica

Commonplace Bulues

The Truth

My Anvil-Headed Hipster

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