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Joanna Klink meditates on personal loss. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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    In a special archival edition, the editors discuss Javier Zamora’s poem "Second Attempt Crossing" published in the November 2016 issue of Poetry.

  • From Poetry Off the ShelfJanuary 2018

    How women poets made birth, motherhood, and parenting central preoccupations of contemporary poetry, just as it is in life.

  • From The Poetry Magazine PodcastJanuary 2018

    The editors discuss Joshua Bennett’s poem “The Book of Mycah” from the January 2018 issue of Poetry.

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    Eleni Sikelianos explores the evolution of the human body. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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