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

A Story

The Room of the Elder

We Lived

The Poem with No End

A Kind of Goodness

Bird

Noise and Strife

Poem

“My heart and my flesh sing”

Från “Aases Död”

From “Aase’s Death”

From the Basement Tapes

Thank You for the Cake Happy Birthday to No One

Pursuit

पार

Cross

Great Blue Heron at Burnett Bridge

Intersection

No Answer

Brink

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Transfiguration

Chipping Sparrow

Off on Holiday

Detroit

Raucous Prayer

FREED VERSE: A RECKONING OF BLACK BRITISH POETS

There Is a Force Stronger Than the Sea

Theory of Shouting

From “Kobe as Ogun, Yoruba God of Work”

in a house with a small body of water

Ethanol

Dynamic Disks, 1933

In the Absence of a Name Noah’s Wife Sings Her Own Praise Song

The Good Die Young and Supine

A Victory over the Self Is No Victory at All

Dust-Dipped

Preaching

The Legend of the Flying Weave

I remember when my dad started sleeping with other women.

Hey, It’s Me, the Wind-Rider, the Red Dust

Things I Mean to Write About

Dwayne

Our Founder

Kamau

COMMENT

Survival Marvels: The Portal Poetics of Cheryl Clarke

Contributors

The Yale Series of Younger Poets 2026 Competition