Digital Exclusives from Poetry Magazine
Updates from the magazine’s editors and recent contributors.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Esther Belin September 4, 2023The process of knowing how to instrument this information and motivation was the logic behind grafting myself into the Poetry Foundation.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Srikanth Reddy August 28, 2023
Through it all, I came to learn that literary magazines are more like ordinary families, and less like historical dynasties, than I’d previously imagined.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Suzi F. Garcia August 21, 2023
I now realize that growth cannot happen overnight, nor should it. It must be built with the goal of sustainability. As anyone in nonprofit work can tell you, burnout plagues...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Su Cho August 14, 2023
I don’t know how to make a home. It feels jarring to say that, but I realize I’ve always had my eye on the next thing, the next project, and...
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors November 8, 2022
If you’re new to the app, now is a great time to check it out since the October issue (our 110th anniversary issue) is currently FREE!
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors October 3, 2022
Poetry magazine was founded 110 years ago this month, and in celebration of this milestone, we’re offering our readers lots of special content and freebies.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Anthony Cody September 28, 2022
In my insistence on being the poet/essayist, I had managed to make myself the hero, to assume that I knew better than the poem. Perhaps this is in the western...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Yaccaira Salvatierra September 26, 2022
I had not been writing and, truthfully, I was contemplating abandoning poetry after decades of coming back to it time and time again.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Jessica Kim September 7, 2022
Although love is less frequent in my mother tongue, it lasts longer.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Hajar Hussaini May 25, 2022
I have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Sarah Ghazal Ali May 17, 2022
When my father explained that I was named for an elevated poetic form, that an entire region’s poetic pride was embedded in my name, ghazals became a source of wonder...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos April 27, 2022
We invited contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us about a favorite poem in their “original” language, or in their “adopted” literary language.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos April 19, 2022
We invited contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us how they began writing poetry in a “non-native,” or second, or other language, and why (in 100 words or...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos April 12, 2022
We invited all contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us the story--or a story--about learning the language that they’ve adopted for poetry (in 100 words or fewer).
