From This Issue January 2020
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poemBy Christian Wiman
All my friends are finding new beliefs.
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Declan RyanOn The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, edited by Saskia Hamilton.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Jenny Zhang
It’s not that deep, it’s just what I like.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastJanuary 2020
The editors discuss Christian Wiman’s poem “All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs” from the January 2020 issue of Poetry.
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collection
If all your friends read poetry, would you read it too? We think so, and here’s why.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
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poemBy Joy HarjoWe were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. Wewere surfacing the edge of our ancestors’ fights, and ready to strike.It was difficult to lose days in the Indian bar if you were straight.Easy if you...
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poemBy Ciaran CarsonIt was one of those puzzling necks of the wood where the South was in the North, the wayThe double cross in a jigsaw loops into its matrix, like the border was a clef
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poemBy Tracy K. SmithYou flinch. Something flickers, not fleeing your face. MyHeart hammers at the ceiling, telling my tongueTo turn it down. Too late. The something climbs, leaps, isFalling now across us like the prank of an icy, brainyLord. I chose the wrong...
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