POETRY Magazine cover of November 2017 issue

November 2017

 
  • Shane McCrae
  • Fatimah Asghar
  • Franny Choi
  • Rae Armantrout
  • Cortney Lamar Charleston
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From this Issue

Poem
Some people say the devil is beating
his wife. Some people say the devil
is pawing his wife. Some people say
the devil is doubling down on an overall
attitude of entitlement toward
the body of his wife. Some people
say the devil won’t need to...
Poem
wolf moon

No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead. Red runes, electric. Telling an old story of escape, of wind, a wide cold. A distant car alarm. Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women...
Poem
Say licked clean at birth. Say
  weeping in the tall grass, where
    this tantalizing song begins,
  birds perched on a crooked branch
over a grave of an unending trek
  into the valley of cooling waters.
    The soil’s thirst, lessons...
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