Cover of Poetry Magazine April 2019 Issue.

April 2019

 
  • Adonis
  • Ru Freeman
  • Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
  • Jane Yeh
  • Reginald Dwayne Betts
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Sestina in Prose

It was like climbing a mountain to those of us who’d climbed one. To the others, it was like, I suppose, something else. In other words, we let everybody find her own figure of speech.

Not that it—speech—lay thick on the...
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“Un Tintero,” Inkwell

              Anger is the other person inside
                            mi garganta, my throat.

                     ...
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The Solitary Land

Translated By Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Ivan Eubanks
I inhabit these fugitive words,
I live, my face my face’s lone companion,
And my face is my path,

In your name, my land
That stands tall, enchanted and solitary;
In your name, death, my friend.
 Translated from the Arabic
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