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In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer a free download of the April 2022 issue of Poetry!

In addition to many new poems and translations from Asiya Wadud, Aditi Machado, Renee Gladman, and more, the issue features the portfolio, “‘These Blazing Forms’: The Life and Work of...

We can’t ignore our limitations, of course, but they shouldn’t be a reason not to translate in the first place. Perhaps one has to admit [...] that one never will...

What I am always puzzling over in her writing and thinking is how it declares questions with such aplomb, a poetics of salvage that doesn’t look for an elsewhere but...

I first became acquainted with the idea of poetry ancestors when I read a 2015 lecture by Joy Harjo. When she talked about ancestors of poems and poetry genealogies, I...

As soon as you think you get a hold of this cyborg’s story, she cuts the emerging (and comforting) integrative flow and disables your human-centric, and very normative, desires.

In that encounter, I learned that I was Appalachian, that my tongue had smuggled the mountains with me across the commonwealth. Startled by the sound of my own voice when...

There we all were, there in that drafty room, surrounded by the song and sanctuary of the words. Enveloped by bodies listening to each reader sing and spirit each other...

How do we—I’m talking to us, finally, Deaf poets—how do we find relevance in much of poetics, which denotatively pursues musicality and claims to puncture and perforate so-called silence?

Thank you for reading. Thank you for writing. Most importantly, thank you for being here with poetry and inside a fleeting moment of intimacy we will one day strive to...