Poetry

For more than 110 years, Poetry magazine has been a monthly gathering space for poets and readers. The magazine publishes contemporary poetry and prose, primarily in English, and translations from contributors all over the world. Poetry has been published in Chicago since its founding in 1912.

Poetry

Editor’s Note

“Seeds to us they offered”: Diné Poets on the Indigenous Language of Poetry

From “The Next Sky”

‘Álastsii’ Dah Deidiijaa’

My Chiziiness

If I Were an Ewok, My Sister Would Take Me and Name Me Sunshine

Pottery Fragment #2

Naal’eełi / Drake is the name for a male duck

Plan Wheel

Female Rain

Resilience

Memories of Allegiance

Shí łeeshch’iih béénáshniih, I remember ash

Aak’ei Tsin, Changing Trees

“Áyóó łíí’bił dáh si t’ii.”

I Am Dressed in My Language

If Senses

From the Mesa: A Reflection on Language, Poetics, and Personhood

sǫ’

star poem

nahóółtą́

rain poem

From “Swift Cinder”

From “American Accessory”

Achaan aghádaana’ígíí

Heritage Diner

How to be a drunk ndn

Corn, Squash, Beans

Magic Eight Ball

Ch’iłbaa hózhóní

Morning Flower

Lost Quails in an Easter Pastoral

Green Beans in a Can, Low Sodium

Tséyaaniichii

Rehoboth

Fragments of Light

Crimson and Juniper

The “Um”—bundling of—Ultraviolet Velveteen and Corn—Husked Satin

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Webster’s Dictionary Definition of Indigeneity; Since 2005

Hooves Hang Off Cliff Teeth

Word Made Real

dáádílkał

Dá’ák’eh ahooł’níi (To make a crop)

Poetry as a Vessel: Preserving Navajo Culture Amidst the Dangers of Translation

Shadow Pt. 2

The Sound of Water

Voicemail

Roundtable on Indigenous Poetics

Contributors