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 Srikanth Reddy November 3, 2021
My parents, both retired South Asian medical professionals, always wanted me to become an anesthesiologist someday. “Good pay, no night calls—and most of the time, your patients are unconscious,” they...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Suzi F. Garcia September 9, 2021
I didn’t learn to read until third grade, but I had been learning poetry my whole life.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Ashley M. Jones July 26, 2021
I’m writing this last blog post while looking out the window at my dad’s summer garden, thinking about all the animals and insects and leafy things making things work outside.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Ashley M. Jones June 23, 2021
Here in Alabama, it’s getting hot enough to shout, and all the blooms are blooming in their exuberant way. Poems, too, are blooming.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Su Cho June 2, 2021
Editorial work is people work, and while that might not be the most poetic statement, it certainly embodies a poetic sensibility and duty to our relationships.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Ashley M. Jones May 14, 2021
Here’s to the heart-work that poetry can continue to do for all of us, always.
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors March 1, 2021
We’re pleased to announce our March 2021 issue, “Young People’s Poetry,” edited by the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poets Laureate: Margarita Engle, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Jacqueline Woodson.
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors February 1, 2021
We’re proud to present the February 2021 issue of Poetry, titled “The Practice of Freedom.” The issue is devoted to the work of poets and artists who have been directly...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Ashley M. Jones January 27, 2021
And, here, I inject Lorde again—love of poetry means, to me, a love of the power inside each of us.
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors August 7, 2020
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are thrilled to announce the twenty-two finalists for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. Thank you to all who submitted applications....
