Poetry Magazine
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE OF
Poetry magazine
It is time to sing like cobblestones in rain.
. Unquote.It is time to sing like cobblestones in rain.
. Unquote.From the magazine:Wind
From the magazine:Lowestoft’s First Pride, 2023
From the magazine:On the Virtues of the Fly
Listen, this may take a while
Listen, this may take a while
. Unquote.Listen, this may take a while
Listen, this may take a while
. Unquote.From the magazine:In Minneapolis
From the magazine:January Afternoon
From the magazine:Beast
I have started from happiness again.
. Unquote.I have started from happiness again.
. Unquote.From the magazine:Fighting Weight
From the magazine:Bella Notte
From the magazine:play cousins
All that repeats—
let it be sweet?
All that repeats—
let it be sweet?
From the magazine:God of Song
From the magazine:From Below
From the magazine:Cooking Gas Commercial
Recent Features from Poetry
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:Introduction: On the Poem-Life of Ted Joans
By Steven BellettoA sample of Joans’s disparate poetic registers.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:My Anvil-Headed Hipster
By Laura CorsigliaTed believed in poetry as a force and was out to catch it at all times.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:Introduction: A Gathering of New Two-Spirit and Indigequeer Poetry
By Crisosto Apache & Julian Talamantez BrolaskiA “new cartography” of personhood.
Hard Feelings Essays
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Disgust: Gurgling Pits
Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Nostalgia: Ever Cleaner, Ever More Pillowy
Surely the experience of immigration reinforced my predilections, but some people are simply born looking backward.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Fear: Radiant and Brimming
Where my ex deemed me unmaternal because of my writing, the opposite is true: I’m no good to anyone if I don’t preserve this one thing for myself.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Self-Loathing: My Particular Involvement
When, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt
On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt
I’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemFrom the magazine:
Ode to a Dolly Parton Drag Queen
By Bruce SniderShe lip-syncs “Hello God,” then “9 to 5.”
She struts. Or does she fly? Like the soul,
a rhinestone, she tells us, will never die.
She’s a blush-pink Bible. Patched together,
she’s a cosmic doll. Mirror of a mirror,
she winks, her face the only... - PoemFrom the magazine:
The Chart
By Rafael CampoSays fifty-four-year-old obese Hispanic
female — I wonder if they mean the one
with long black braids, Peruvian, who sells
tamales at the farmers’ market, tells
me I’m too thin, I better eat; or is
she the Dominican with too much rouge
and almond eyes at the... - PoemFrom the magazine:
A Little Cheonyeo Gwishin Appears in My Kitchen
By Su ChoShe snaps the heads
off dried anchovies,
their eyes a black
ant hill burying my toes.
I’m breaking doenjang
with the flat head
of a metal spoon,
stirring the boomerang
silver bodies she drops.
Whenever she feels
like showing up, we cook
together. She opens
the tofu, smashes
the watery curd with her
foot,...
Submissions
Find out how to submit your poetry.
Submit
Newsletter
Sign up for the Poetry Foundation newsletter.
Sign Up
History
Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
More History