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Poetry Magazine
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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featured prose
A Post-Racial Anthology?
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, ed. by Charles Henry Rowell.
W.W. Norton. $24.95.
featured poem
A Tale Told by Atheneus (Venus Callipygus)
Two sisters of ancient Greece both laid claim
To the finest, fairest rear of their time.
Which tail forged ahead? Which bottom’s true . . .
To the finest, fairest rear of their time.
Which tail forged ahead? Which bottom’s true . . .
featured poem
Sestina: Like
Now we’re all “friends,” there is no love but Like,
A semi-demi goddess, something like
A reality-TV star look-alike, . . .
A semi-demi goddess, something like
A reality-TV star look-alike, . . .
