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poemBy Joanna Klink
Rain falls across the avenues. What can I say anymore that might be
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poemBy Yuxi Lin
Come—swim in me, tread upon shores of cenotes unburied.
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poemBy Brian Gyamfi
When Eloise tells Kofi she wants a divorce, he sits naked on the kitchen floor skinning an ox tongue to prepare Eloise’s favorite dish.
Digital Features from Poetry
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Howard Rambsy IIAn introduction to our William J. Harris folio
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine Podcast January 2023
For the month of January, we’re focusing on what keeps us writing. How do we refresh our writing habits and routines? How do poets sustain their writing practices? Today, Holly...
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An Anniversary Collection
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
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poemBy Alison C. Rollins1If you play me then youPlay yourself. That wasAll the dead neededTo say. To get the betterOf time, we got betterWith time. I left my bodyAnd took on the lookOf a man. I made himAn honest woman.A diagram of thisSentence...
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poemBy Jane YehYou don’t return my calls. In a month of missing daysEverything thwarts me, even the curls of my hair freeze;
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poemBy Kenneth PatchenForever the little thud of names, falling,Disappearing, baying at the moon for the last time––Quiet obscure little names, leaving no traceBut the ash-frecked aroma of stale fragmentary careers
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