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In time I have come to comprehend this: that you believe in the world by touching its every face.
. Unquote.In time I have come to comprehend this: that you believe in the world by touching its every face.
. Unquote.From the magazine:I Want It to Be Winter All the Time
From the magazine:The Egg and the Stone
From the magazine:Say Word?
Recent Features from Poetry
From the magazine:On Translating Fatemeh Shams
By Armen DavoudianConfronted by the eventuality of becoming, herself, a translated subject, Shams makes translation itself her subject.
From the magazine:On Translating Sylvie Kandé
By Nancy Naomi CarlsonKandé’s Gestuaire is a collection of real and surreal gestures inspired by such themes as her childhood memories, postcolonial trauma, Diola culture, and the horrors of war.
PoemFrom the magazine:From “Wound Up”By julie ezelle patton
A hand writing. That’s always interesting. That’s the pleasure of writing. Like hang gliding—you lift…
Hard Feelings Essays
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.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Shame: In the Realm of Death and Awe
My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Neediness: Midnight Chimes
What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Despair: It’s All a Charade
If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemFrom the magazine:the women in my familyBy Fatimah Asghartheir names have been lost
only the winds & only the mountains
keep them. we’ve forgotten the names
of … - PoemFrom the magazine:Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)By Rochelle Hurt[all my exes agree i’m too sensitive. inside i’m keeping track of slights on one long receipt, a diaristic…
- PoemFrom the magazine:
We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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