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Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:Poets of My Age and the Erotics of Influence
On loving poets through decades of poetry and living.
From the magazine:Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife
Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife
after this will be different,
they will hold a different weight
like how the weight of my heart
has shifted into indistinguishable float,
into lifting cloud,
into weightless flight tonight
as the rain gently falls
on the summer-heated tin roof,
the din of...
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:The Poets of Fire & Ink: An Introduction
The Poets of Fire & Ink: An Introduction
For the beloved queer trickster Kevin Killian, pop culture was always entangled with death.
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One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
