July/August 2017
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Rick Barot
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Hayan Charara
- Ocean Vuong
From this Issue
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poemBy Aimee NezhukumatathilGive me a churchmade entirely of salt.Let the walls hissand smoke whenI return to shore.I ask for the graceof a new freckleon my cheek, the liftof blue and my mother’ssoapy skin to greet me.Hide me in a roomwith no windows.Never...
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poemBy Rick BarotSomeone is in the kitchen washing the dishes.Someone is in the living room watching the news.Someone in a bedroom is holding a used stampwith tweezers and adding it to his collection.Someone is scolding a dog, barking now fordecades, a different...
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poemBy Zubair AhmedI create timeI cannot create timeI’m frozen in placeI cannot be frozenI’m moving but don’t noticeI notice me moving, I pay attentionTo the small yet immense yetSmall movements that guideMy limbs, my hair growth, my joint oilsI don’t think about...
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From the Editors of Poetry
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Tarfia Faizullah & Timothy Yu
The Asian American Poets Issue.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine Podcast July 2017
The editors discuss Li-Young Lee's "Changing Places in the Fire" from the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
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Table of Contents
POEMS
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Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Tarfia Faizullah, and Timothy Yu
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Rick Barot
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Zubair Ahmed
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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Sally Wen Mao
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Garrett Hongo
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Larissa Lai
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Cathy Linh Che
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Jeffrey Yang
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Ocean Vuong
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Gerald Maa
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Paisley Rekdal
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Linh Dinh
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Bryan Thao Worra
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Tishani Doshi
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Oliver de la Paz
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Craig Santos Perez
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Rajiv Mohabir
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Chen Chen
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Hiromi Itō
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Hoa Nguyen
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Paolo Javier and Alex Tarampi
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Kazim Ali
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Dunya Mikhail
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Brandon Som
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Kimiko Hahn
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Tan Lin
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Joseph O. Legaspi
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Mai Der Vang
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Wang Ping
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Shamala Gallagher
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Bao Phi
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Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
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Arthur Sze
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Cathy Song
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Myung Mi Kim
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Vijay Seshadri
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Sueyeun Juliette Lee
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Prageeta Sharma
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Li-Young Lee
culture lab
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
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Contributors
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- Kimiko Hahn
- Tan Lin
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Mai Der Vang
- Wang Ping
- Shamala Gallagher
- Bao Phi
- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
- Arthur Sze
- Cathy Song
- Myung Mi Kim
- Vijay Seshadri
- Sueyeun Juliette Lee
- Prageeta Sharma
- Li-Young Lee
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
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