From This Issue March 2019
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poemBy Ray Gonzalez
Yes, I am a body of rags lying
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly AmosContributors to the March 2019 issue share some recommendations.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastMarch 2019
The editors discuss Ray Gonzalez’s poem “Body of Rags, International Bridge Between the US & Mexico” from the March 2019 issue of Poetry.
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If all your friends read poetry, would you read it too? We think so, and here’s why.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
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poemBy Linda PastanJanuaryContorted by wind,mere armatures for ice or snow,the trees resolveto endure for now,they will leaf out in April.And I must be as patientas the trees—a winter resolutionI break all over again,as the cold pressesits sharp bladeagainst my throat.FebruaryAfter endlesshibernationon the...
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poemBy Osip MandelstamAlone I stare into the frost’s white face.It’s going nowhere, and I—from nowhere.Everything ironed flat, pleated without a wrinkle:Miraculous, the breathing plain.Meanwhile the sun squints at this starched poverty—The squint itself consoled, at ease . . .The ten-fold forest almost...
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