January 2018
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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- W.S. Graham
- Li-Young Lee
- Wendy Xu
- Joshua Bennett
- Karen Solie
From this Issue
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poemBy Jenn Givhan
I carried a bowl of menudo into the forest / I carried my bisabuela’s tripas not daring ask whose intestines I carried / con cilantro y radish y cebolla chopped fine / I carried the sewing machine they’d chained her...
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poemBy Rosebud Ben-OniSomewhere in kentucky she went for kicksspiked polka-dot mintjulep grade 1 stakes white-glovedclubhouse how-you-do-seesuntil all the horses broke their legs & for all the horses my exjoined the seine-et-oisethoroughbred liberation front & shecrashed all the bentleys & it was I...
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poemBy Sheryl LunaDazed with rambling gossip,their looming net of mistakes,their love of rumor, they all dreamarousal. They are far from indifferent.Their language bellows need.A gull darts over and behindbare buildings, shaggy forests, mountains,city streets. Trees lose leaves, and oneman insists the leaves...
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From the Editors of Poetry
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Rachael Boast & Andy Ching
On the Scottish poet W.S. Graham.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine Podcast January 2018
The editors discuss Joshua Bennett’s poem “The Book of Mycah” from the January 2018 issue of Poetry.
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Table of Contents
POEMS
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Jenn Givhan
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Rosebud Ben-Oni
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Wendy Xu
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Christopher Spaide
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Joan Murray
- “Is all at least partially as you might wish?”
- “The hour like a child runs down the angle of star and rests at the bottom”
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Sandra McPherson
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Karen Solie
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Li-Young Lee
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Mario Chard
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Sean O’Brien
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Joshua Bennett
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Ari Banias
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Donald Revell
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Marion McCready
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Jamie McKendrick
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Paul Batchelor
w.s. graham at 100
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Rachael Boast and Andy Ching
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Contributors
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