Poetry

For more than 110 years, Poetry magazine has been a monthly gathering space for poets and readers. The magazine publishes contemporary poetry and prose, primarily in English, and translations from contributors all over the world. Poetry has been published in Chicago since its founding in 1912.

Poetry

Editor’s Note

Wreck

Redwork

Trucking

Deep Thoughts at Ulta Beauty

Physical Education

We

Ending Song

Crossing

Bone Symphony

Slow Violence

A Force of Nature

poem.

poem.

Infinity Pool

Ah-gong’s Funeral

Orfeo

Woof, This Heat

Petition for Reintroduction

Street Food

I-765

Working with Jimmy Above a Drop Ceiling

Work Ethic

On Intimacy

When the Seed Spans the Length of the Fruit

⽊兰花 · 和孙公素别安陆

Departure

贺新郎

Self-Portrait as the Mountain

When Untouched

The Closet Weeper

The Gazing Ball

Still

Triolet with a Line by Sylvia Plath

Pair

War. Day 294

Is This My Last Ferry Trip?

Self-Elegies

NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER • It seemed to me a kind of magic to take a made thing and make it almost unrecognizably new.

“A slow and difficult process that verged on the ridiculous”: On Erasure

Writing Prompt

From “R E D”

Contributors