- Franz Wright
- Donika Kelly
- Ange Mlinko
- Aram Saroyan
- Inger Christensen
From this Issue
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poemBy Virginia KeaneI was one year old when my nanny went awayleaving no memory of a face that watched,arms that held, hands that fed and cleaned me,left no record of her voice or name. My fatherdied, leaving wisps of pipe smoke for...
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poemBy Keith S. WilsonI’m striving to be a better astronaut,but consider where I’m coming from,the exosphere,a desk where the bluest airthins to a lip. Impossibleto know the differencefrom where I sit and space.I promise I still dreamof coming back to you, settlingon your...
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poemBy Franz Wright1Father trellis of my voice (or noose) abruptly vanished —2I wear this razory fishhookof crucifix.Look.How it helps mekeep my headdown,down with shame,the gloryand shamesee this frail weightless chain:there is anotherlike it.Sometimesmy neck feelslike it’sbreaking —It hangs right herenear the heart’shidden roomwhere a...
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From the Editors of Poetry
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Inger Christensen
The poetry of parts of speech.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine Podcast September 2018
The editors discuss Carolina Ebeid’s poem “Annotations for a Memorial” from the September 2018 issue of Poetry.
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Table of Contents
POEMS
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Virginia Keane
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Keith S. Wilson
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Franz Wright
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Carolina Ebeid
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Mia Kang
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Donika Kelly
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Alex Dimitrov
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Alison C. Rollins
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Jennifer Jean
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Terese Svoboda
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Nestor Gomez
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Claudine Toutoungi
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sam sax
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Ange Mlinko
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Rebecca Ariel Porte
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Nomi Stone
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Aram Saroyan
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Nate Marshall
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Zack Strait
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Jayme Ringleb
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John Wieners
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Valzhyna Mort
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Matthew Sweeney
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Inger Christensen