POETRY Magazine cover of September 2006 issue

September 2006

Stas Orlovski, "Head with Birds," 2003
 
  • Anne Stevenson
  • D. Powell
  • Michael Heffernan
  • Paisley Rekdal
  • Natalie Shapero
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The Enigma

Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse
between one rough dream and another, I seemed,
still awake, to be stranded on a stony path,
and there the familiar enigma presented itself
in the shape of a little trembling lamb.
It was lying like...
Poem
The whole day I hung around in the sky over Russia
was a Wednesday in October. No one looked up

with any semblance of regard from the heroic Russian people.
I had always wanted to visit the back streets

of Omsk,...
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Multiple people reading Poetry magazine, each framed in colorful arched shapes. Red and black text reads. "Special Offer. 5 months of Poetry for $15"