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 April 1, 2022
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer a free download of the April 2022 issue of Poetry!
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors March 1, 2022
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Whitney DeVos & Hugo García Manríquez February 28, 2022
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Sarah Ahmad & Giannina Braschi February 9, 2022
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Esther Belin February 4, 2022
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Aga Skrodzka February 1, 2022
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.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Michael Dowdy January 19, 2022
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Ariel Myers Vincent December 6, 2021
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...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Meg Day November 30, 2021
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?
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From Poetry MagazineBy Su Cho November 15, 2021
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...
