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“Oh, he’s getting deported,” said my mother with a big, bright smile, right as my father was leaving the house to meet with an immigration lawyer. For years I’ve ruminated...

You haven’t seen Blazing Saddles until you’ve seen it in the hospice where your mother is spending her last three weeks, and she keeps saying, wait, it gets funnier.  Madeleine Kahn, Cleavon Little,...

Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here. Here we have something for you folks, we hope You enjoy it as we enter our social section, thank...

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here After the pandemic, I understood surrender.  It was February 2020, my father had just died, we’d sold our...

We’re thrilled to announce some new members of the Poetry magazine team!

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here Parts I and II of “Murmurations” focused on the colonial violence of metaphorizing the heart and the...

Sitting in my room alone, a 12-year-old Black girl in Shaker Heights, Ohio, reading My House and Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, my world expanded. There were words for...

For our November issue, we are looking for original poems that engage directly with notions of lineage and influence.

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I’m stuck in the elevator of a storage facility with four movers, and, when an hour passes, I climb...

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 55 nonprofit organizations that received over $1,600,000 in funding in our spring 2023 grant cycle. Selected from 194 grant applications, this robust...