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  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Sapphire

    I remember the first time I saw her, the Firespitter. I had read the work and was expecting a large, imposing presence in “traditional” dress. I mean, what does a Black female warrior look like?

    Jayne Cortez stands in the middle of other Black artists and writers, posing for the photo. Some look at the camera and others at each other. There is a table with cups slightly visible in the foreground and cracked door in the background.
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Randall Mann

    I’ve always admired poems that dare me not to be there, as if my being there was of no consequence; poems that fail to notice me; poems that even actively deride me.

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Andrea Cohen

    And my own pettiness? I went to Paris when I was nineteen to study petit fours and all things small and buttery, and because my brother and I prefer to bicker in person, he came to visit. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Carlie Hoffman
    I first encountered Rose Ausländer in a footnote of John Felstiner’s Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. In the text there’s a quote downplaying Ausländer’s connection to Celan’s “Todesfuge/Deathfugue...
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Hüseyin Alhas & Ulaş Özgün
    Another central challenge in translating Onur’s poetry mirrors the timeless struggle faced by all who seek to bridge poetry across languages: capturing not only the words but the layers of meaning...
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Adrian Matejka

    I’m wrapping this up with a quote from the philosopher-poet Bruce Lee, who was credited with saying, “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Ocean Vuong
    Looking back at his six volumes, what becomes clear is a deliberate and calculated disobedience. Lee’s obsessions—love, family, faith, the divine, food, the body and its myriad mirages—return without...
    Black and white portrait of Li-Young Lee wearing a suit. Lee is not facing the camera and looks off and to the side.
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Li-Young Lee

    But what is a seed? Is it the apple? Is it a Kingdom? To hold a seed, weightless, in the palm of your hand, is to think, Soon

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Yasmine Ameli

    What I have not said yet is that the prose poem forced me to reckon with one of the big questions of my life: who am I really writing for? 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta
    Muñoz weaves the channels, islands, and flashes of Chiloé’s distinct culture: vessels and coastline like bodily contours, compasses and stars as guides, threatening seas, threatened peace, and, always...
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Yasmine Ameli

    Now it’s your turn. For writers who have been struggling to find the form that breathes their stories to life, prose poetry has a growing literary tradition we can learn from. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Adrian Matejka

    Poets are at their finest talking about the dead in metaphors and questions because both suggest some mystery lies just out of sight.

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Aaron Coleman
    Guillén’s awareness of the devastating consequences and conundrums of (neo)colonialism extends outward from his native Caribbean. The form of this zoo is not left to be read as an innocuous or arbitrary...
    Guillen March23 1949 Carl Van Vetchen 1057
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Nora Brooks Blakely

    Gwendolyn Brooks was a World-Watcher. And we need world-watchers more than ever. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine

    By Eirill Alvilde Falck
    “North is not final,” “In another time,” and “the knife soars soundless” are translations from Hjerteskog/Syđänmettä (Heart of the Forest/Syđänmettä), M. Seppola Simonsen’s award-winning debut poetry collection. The...
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