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From the current issue of Poetry

From This Issue October 2023
  • poem
    By Jenny Browne

    is such a public display of affection, a flex even, one the lone magpie staring back from the backside of a badly shorn sheep finds suspect. I flap my arms

  • poem
    By Richard Siken

    I crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange thing to do

  • poem
    By Gabriel Ramirez

    I couldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for you being dead. It was time

By nature, we poets tend many unquenchable flames.

— Kiki Petrosino

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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 Fall

      By Mary Oliver
      the black oaks
      fling their bronze fruit
      into all the pockets of the earth
         pock pock

    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Long Finger Poem

      By Jin Eun-Young
      I’m working on my poems and working with   
      my fingers not my head. Because my fingers

      are the farthest stretching things from me.
      Look at the tree. Like its longest branch

      I touch the evening’s quiet breathing. Sounds   
      of rain. The crackling heat from other trees.

    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Falling Dark at the Quarters

      By Douglas Kearney
      Falling light as the cotton boll sun descends

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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