Poetry Magazine

Nate Klug

• Work
• Wisconsin

Hailey Leithauser

• Bad Sheep

Rick Barot

• The Wooden Overcoat

Eduardo C. Corral

• In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes

Jason Guriel

• A Magnetic Personality
• John Hancock’s John Hancock

Yusef Komunyakaa

• Snow Tiger
• Omens
• Islands

Patricia Lockwood

• The Arch

V. Penelope Pelizzon

• Nulla Dies Sine Linea

David Lehman

• The Breeder’s Cup

Sean Hill

• Bemidji Blues

Michael Collier

• Six Lines for Louise Bogan

Sandra Simonds

• You Can’t Build a Child

Anthony Madrid

• Once upon a Time

Amit Majmudar

• Horse Apocalypse

Karen An-hwei Lee

• Song-Riddle: Asian Box Turtle
• Song of the Oyamel

Kathy Nilsson

• Little Ice Age
• Still Life

Wendy Videlock

• !

Beverley Bie Brahic

• Reunion: J-School, Class of 19--

Tara Bray

• Numbered

Ellery Akers

• Hook

The Editors

• From 100 Years

• Grief and grace in the last century of Poetry magazine.

Geoffrey Hill

• Wreaths

Muriel Rukeyser

• Song
• Song for Dead Children

Gwendolyn Brooks

• Gay Chaps at the Bar
• “Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity...”

Howard Nemerov

• Political Reflection
• To the Mannequins

William Empson & Geoffrey Grigson

• Correspondence

• William Empson and Geoffrey Grigson on climbers, criticism, and the morality of rudeness.

William Logan

• Geoffrey Hill

• Remembering the Courtly Jester

Gerald Stern

• Muriel Rukeyser

• At the Church of the Transfiguration

Patricia Smith

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• In the Mecca

Maxine W. Kumin

• Howard Nemerov

• The Secret Sharer

Clive James

• William Empson

• Of Beards and Weirdness

Sven Birkerts

• Emerson’s “The Poet”—A Circling

• Translating the transcendentalist into today’s language.

Vera Pavlova

• Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook

• Why poetry is like earthworms, thought is like cud, and understanding is like insanity.

Paul Durica

• April 1950