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From This Issue July/August 2023
  • poem
    By Kevin Young

    The heart, it hoards— how I know this— The small, strangled

  • poem
    By Susan Browne

    I swim my laps today, slowly, slowly, reaching my arms out & over, my fleshly oars,

  • poem
    By Teresa Soto

    Di, tú o tú, cualquiera, ¿a qué tanta risa?, ¿qué celebráis? Hoy reímos de que acabó el día y no nos agotó la pena.

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By The Editors, Adrian Matejka & Robert Eric Shoemaker

An Anniversary Collection

From the Poetry Magazine Archive

    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine SPLEEN 3: Supreme White

      By Larissa Lai
      could the opium have gone bananas
      tripped a deeper horror?

      say the chiu chau defeat the green gang
      take control of the comprador colony
      make a chungking mansion
      out of every high-rise tower

      n tu yueh-sheng n chiang kai-shek
      kick mao tse-tung in his long march
      and blast...

    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Song (“I wouldn’t/embarrass you...”)

      By Robert Creeley
      I wouldn’t
      embarrass you
      ever.

      If there were
      not place
      or time for it,

      I would go,
      go elsewhere,
      remembering.

    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine The Gulf, 1987

      By Deborah Paredez
      The day upturned, flooded with sunlight, not
      a single cloud. I squint into the glare,
      cautious even then of bright emptiness.
      We sit under shade, Tía Lucia
      showing me how white folks dine, the high life.
      I am about to try my first oyster,
      Tía spending...

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Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. More History