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Poetry Magazine
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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featured poem
Convinced, 1957
At last I was convinced that giving in to their thinking represented a huge error in the evolution of my family affairs. Riven with . . .
featured prose
Everyone Is an Immigrant
Two paramedics, a man and a woman wearing green and blue scrubs, toss biscotti to seagulls. They glance out at the open ocean. . . .
featured poem
Coffee Lips
The guest who came in to the street people’s suppers last night,
An elderly man with a lost smart little boy’s face and a look
. . .
An elderly man with a lost smart little boy’s face and a look
. . .
featured prose
Technique’s Marginal Centrality
At the court of the Shogun Iyenari, it was a tense moment. Hokusai, already well established as a prodigiously gifted artist, was . . .
