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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2022 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2022

2022

Featuring: Yusef Komunyakaa Victoria Chang Alex Dimitrov Karyna McGlynn Myronn Hardy Dāshaun Washington Trevor Ketner Winniebell Xinyu Zong Martín Espada Edgar Kunz Ladan Osman Ruth Ellen Kocher Eugene Gloria Diane Seuss Andrew Peart Carolyn Marie Rodgers Nikky Finney Ross Gay
Poetry Magazine April 2022 book cover
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Poetry Magazine April 2022

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Poetry Magazine February 2022 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2022

2022

Contributors: Suzi F. Garcia Ada Limón Hedgie Choi Muna Abdulahi Naomi Ortiz Camille T. Dungy Brian Turner Sarah Gzemski The Cyborg Jillian Weise Soham Patel Giannina Braschi Leila Chatti Keith Donnell Jr. Brian Czyzyk Ninamarie Ochoa Victoria Chang Prageeta Sharma Khaty Xiong Jeremy Michael Clark Juan Felipe Herrera Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng Hussain Ahmed Edvard Munch Tytti Heikkinen Rosa Chávez Irma Pineda Mikeas Sánchez Fei Ming 废名 Xiao Xi 小西 Masaoka Shiki Julia Wong Kcomt
Poetry Magazine January 2022 book cover
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Poetry Magazine January 2022

2022

Contributors: Suzi F. Garcia C. E. Janecek Nathalie Koble Cole Swensen Kay Ulanday Barrett Kareem Tayyar Lukas Bacho Saleem Hue Penny Christine Imperial Clarisse Baleja Saïdi Petra Kuppers Josh Tvrdy Ben Kline Marissa Davis Elise Paschen Daniel Moysaenko Roy White Adrienne Kvello Michael Dowdy David A. Reyes Alison Thumel
Poetry Magazine November 2021 book cover
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Poetry Magazine November 2021

2021

Poetry Magazine September 2021 book cover
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Poetry Magazine September 2021

2021

Contributors: Su Cho Justin Danzy Ina Cariño Daye Phillippo Danni Quintos Jim Whiteside Jai Hamid Bashir Saddiq Dzukogi Lisa Low Eugenia Leigh Philip Metres Fritz Ward Christell Victoria Roach RK Fauth Chris Santiago Janelle Tan Jinhao Xie Gabriel Dozal Marianne Chan
Poetry Magazine May 2021 book cover
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Poetry Magazine May 2021

2021

Contributors: Poems: Ashley M. Jones Ashlee Haze Emily Gallacher Viall Imru al-Qays Elena Ramirez-Gorski January Gill O’Neil Rebecca Foust Jennifer Huang Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Rachel Jamison Webster Kyle Carrero Lopez Rochelle Hurt Tarik Dobbs Caroline Crew H.R. Webster Courtney Faye Taylor Vernita Hall Faisal Mohyuddin Rosemary Catacalos Amanda Gunn Cynthia Dewi Oka Casey Thayer Artress Bethany White
Poetry Magazine April 2021 book cover
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Poetry Magazine April 2021

2021

Contributors: Poems: The Cyborg Jillian Weise Vidhu Aggarwal Alyse Knorr Kenyatta Rogers Su Cho Hadara Bar-Nadav Xiao Yue Shan Marlon Hacla Juan J. Morales Jenn Givhan Iliana Rocha Lee Young-ju Keith S. Wilson Comment: Kevin Simmonds André Naffis-Sahely
Poetry Magazine February 2021 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2021

2021

Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2020

2020

Contributors: JANE WONG NOOR HINDI PIPPA LITTLE MARCUS WICKER ASHLEY M. JONES T.J. CLARK TALVIKKI ANSEL ANNA LEAHY LUTHER HUGHES DARIUS SIMPSON JAYY DODD LEILA CHATTI LANCE LARSEN A.D. LAUREN-ABUNASSAR IMANI CEZANNE MAGGIE MILLNER AUSTIN SMITH ANGE MLINKO WILLIAM FULLER BRAYAN SALINAS PHILIP GROSS ALEC FINLAY JOHN LENNOX ISABELLA BORGESON JON DAVIS KEMI ALABI CYRÉE JARELLE JOHNSON JORDAN KELLER-MARTINEZ DAMON LOCKS MEREDITH STERN CARLOS J. AYALA TARA BETTS ARYULES BIVENS JUAN LUNA SALVADOR HERRERA TONGO EISEN-MARTIN JUAN LUNA C. MCLAURIN ALAN GILBERT JOHN WILKINSON ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY
Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2020

2020

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Chester Wilson III Maya C. Popa Cathy Song M. Alexander Turner Katie Hartsock Orlando Ricardo Menes Christine Gosnay Jose Hernandez Diaz Martin Dyar Tianru Wang Nikki Wallschlaeger Ingrid Wendt Mairead Small Staid Tom Pickard Nathan Spoon Geraldine Clarkson Adrienne Su Maurya Simon John Burnside Jennifer Jean Drew Milne John Lee Clark Dorothy Chan Jennifer Martelli Ed Roberson Oli Rodriguez Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2020

2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2020

2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2020

2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2020

2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine, February 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, February 2020

2020

\POEMS\ ZACH LINGE Fingers on a Gay Man For Baron B. JESUS GOVEA Bruh DAISY FRIED One Day I Suddenly Notice ...1 TERESE SVOBODA Noah Hoarse JAMES MCCORKLE Franklin's Bees ZEINA HASHEM BECK Poem Beginning & Ending with My Birth ALISON C. ROLLINS At Least a Dozen Bluets Parable of the Goldfinch MAGGIE SMITH How Dark the Beginning Threshold JESSICA GREENBAUM Charlene, MIA YOU Gangnam Beauty JOHN LEE CLARK The Manual MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Singing CAOILINN HUGHES Who Gets the Silverware? BETH BACHMANN Fragments of Bone and Ice International Rose Test Garden MARY B. MOORE California Ode VIRGINIA KEANE I Moved to the Far Side of the Bar Fish and Friend LANI O'HANLON This Other Thing GABRIELLE BATES The Mentor FRANCINE J. HARRIS Curtains PARTRIDGE BOSWELL Upon Hearing Amy Winehouse at St. James’ Church in Dingle NOME EMEKA PATRICK Sylvia Plath as an Old Story Title for Learning to Fight Depression Where the Semiotics Simply Suggest That a Garden Illustrates Peace as a Foreshadow Rather Than as a Vivid Depiction of an Ancestral Society of Sad Mothers & Helpless Fathers ANGELA JACKSON More Than Meat and Raiment TALIN TAHAJIAN Bad classics JACK UNDERWOOD Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Situation An Envelope Alpha Step RODNEY JONES Trying to Believe / We Are Endangered DUJIE TAHAT salat to be read from right to left LIZ BERRY The Burning DAVID FELIX Gastropoda Biosfera \COMMENT\ JEFFREY YANG Mary Oppen, Meaning a Life
Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2020 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2020

2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2019

2019

Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2019

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2019

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, September 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, September 2019

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2019

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2019

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2019

2019

Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2019

2019

Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2019 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2019

2019

Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2018

2018

Lucia Perillo torrin a. greathouse Shane McCrae Martín Espada Natalie Shapero
Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, June 2018

2018

Heid E. Erdrich Tacey M. Atsitty Sy Hoahwah Julian Talamantez Brolaski Tanaya Winder
Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2018

2018

Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2018

2018

Featuring Ilya Kaminsky, Javier Zamora, Solmaz Sharif, Camille T. Dungy, Paul Tran, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Acevedo, Terisa Siagatonu, Sherwin Bitsui, Kazim Ali, Ellen Bass, Kwame Dawes, Mahogany L. Browne, Kiandra Jimenez, Eboni Hogan, Roya Marsh, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, E'Mon Lauren, Justice Ameer, Raych Jackson, Aracelis Girmay, Idrissa Simmonds, and Eric Elshtain.
Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2018

2018

Poetry Foundation Magazine, February 2018 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, February 2018

2018

Poetry Magazine October 2017 book cover
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Poetry Magazine October 2017

2017

Volume 211, Number 1. Featuring Duy Doan, Gregory Maguire, Jorie Graham
Poetry Magazine December 2016 book cover
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Poetry Magazine December 2016

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Poetry Magazine November 2016 book cover
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Poetry Magazine November 2016

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2016 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2016

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Poetry Magazine September 2016 book cover
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Poetry Magazine September 2016

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Poetry Magazine June 2016 book cover
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Poetry Magazine June 2016

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2016 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2016

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2016 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2016

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Poetry Magazine February 2016 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2016

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2016 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2016

2016

Naomi Shihab Nye, David Baker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Elise Paschen, Samiya Bashir, Ailish Hopper, and more.
Poetry Magazine. December 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine. December 2015

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Poetry Magazine November 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine November 2015

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Poetry Magazine June 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine June 2015

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Poetry Magazine May 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine May 2015

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2015 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2015

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Poetry Magazine February 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2015

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Poetry Magazine. January 2015 book cover
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Poetry Magazine. January 2015

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2014 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2014

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2014 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, October 2014

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Poetry Magazine April 2014 book cover
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Poetry Magazine April 2014

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Poetry Magazine December 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine December 2013

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Poetry Magazine November 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine November 2013

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Poetry Magazine October 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine October 2013

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Poetry Magazine September 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine September 2013

2013

Volume 202 ... Number 5. Cover art "Little Bird" by Chris Raschka ... other editors: Don Share, Fred Sasaki, Valerie Jean Johnson, Lindsay Garbutt, Christina Pugh, Alex Knowlton(art direction). Contributors: Kurt Brown, W. S. Di Piero, Nate Klug, Asturo Riley, George Kalogeris, Katharine Coles, Maureen N. McLane, Meghan O'Rourke, Eliza Griswold. Lemony Snicket, Maram Al-Massri, Carl Sandburg, Ava Leavell Haymon, Katerina Rudcenkova, Ron Padgett, Liz Waldner, Stuart Mills, Carrie Fountain, Henry Parland, Richard Brautigan, Sherman Alexie, Zachary Schomburg, Franz Wright, Dorothea Lasky, Lorine Niedecker, Campbell McGrath, Graham Foust, John Ashbery, Eileen Myles, Kay Ryan, Michael Hofmann, Frederick Seidel, Fanny Howe, Clive James ...
Poetry Magazine February 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2013

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Poetry Magazine January 2013 book cover
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Poetry Magazine January 2013

2013

SARA Cairo, Spellbound, Gravitas, Countermeasures, Moves in the Field, Nocturne; BARBARA Letter to a Lost Friend. BRAD A Vase. FANNY Three Persons. JULIAN The Gargantuan Muffin Beauty Contest. MATTHEW Ode to the Belt Sander & This Cocobolo Sapwood, Ode to the Gain, Ode to the Steam Box, End Grain. BARBARA Strange Little Prophets, Not for You, Not for the World. SHANN My Dad, in America, Hesperus. ROBIN The Fishermen’s Farewell. WENDY I Don’t Buy It, Bane, If You’re Crowish. Proverbial, A Lizard in Spanish Valley. KELLY Their Pleas. MICHAEL The Child That Sucketh Long, Reconsidering Dylan Thomas. JASON Sub-Seuss, Reconsidering E.E. Cummings. LAURA Opusculum Paedagogum, Reconsidering Wallace Stevens. PETER Delicate Mother Kangaroo, Reconsidering D.H. Lawrence. DAISY All My Pretty Hates, Reconsidering Charles Baudelaire. ANGE Safer Than Ambien, Reconsidering Elizabeth Bishop. ILYA Of Strangeness That Wakes Us, On mother tongues, fatherlands, and Paul Celan. PETER The Invention of A Notebook, A Seeking higher powers in the Middle East. LETTERS TO THE PHILIP Letter to the Editor.
Poetry Magazine, 100 Years, The Q & A Issue, December 2012 book cover
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Poetry Magazine, 100 Years, The Q & A Issue, December 2012

2012

Poetry April 2012, Volume CC, Number I book cover
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Poetry April 2012, Volume CC, Number I

2012

First printing. Includes a selection of poems by W. S. di Piero as the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Portfolio and also new poems by Stuart Dybek, Kim Addonizio, and others plus a selection of poems from 100 years (all women), comments and reviews.SIGNED by Addonizio at her poem "Heraclitean." Notes on contributors. Cover art by Yuko Shimizu..
Poetry 100 Years (February 2012) book cover
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Poetry 100 Years (February 2012)

2012

Poetry 100 Years (February 2012) (Volume 199, Number 5) \[Paperback\] \[Jan 01, 2012\] Greg Glazner, Jane Hirshfield, Gracey Paley; Christian Wiman and Felix Sockwell …
Poetry November 2011 book cover
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Poetry November 2011

2011

Poetry November 2011 \[Paperback\] \[Jan 01, 2011\] Wiman, Christian (ed) …
Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2011 book cover
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Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2011

2011

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
POETRY VOLUME CXCVI [196] NUMBER 2 MAY 2010 book cover
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POETRY VOLUME CXCVI [196] NUMBER 2 MAY 2010

2010

POETRY VOLUME CXCVI \[196\] NUMBER 2 MAY 2010
Poetry Magazine February 2010 book cover
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Poetry Magazine February 2010

2010

A collection of poems including some by Roberty Bly, Martha Zweig and Eleanor Wilner. Article by Fiona Sampson included. No ISBN, only UPC barcode 074470777465
Poetry Magazine August 2004 book cover
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Poetry Magazine August 2004

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Poetry Magazine December 2003 book cover
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Poetry Magazine December 2003

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Poetry Magazine October 2003 book cover
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Poetry Magazine October 2003

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Poetry August 2002 book cover
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Poetry August 2002

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Poetry Magazine December 2000 book cover
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Poetry Magazine December 2000

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December 2000 issue #177

Authors

Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire
Author · 11 books
Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He holds a personal chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme and the International Institute of Modern Letters. His volume of short fiction, South Pacific, was published by Carcanet in 1994.
Rob Schlegel
Rob Schlegel
Author · 5 books
Rob Schlegel serves as co-editor of The Catenary Press, which is dedicated to publishing long poems. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Jacket2, New American Writing, The Volta, and elsewhere. Born in Portland, Oregon, he has lived most recently in Iowa, Montana, and Washington.
Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder
Author · 11 books

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels MILK FED and THE PISCES, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY, and five collections of poems including SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems and LAST SEXT. She lives in Los Angeles. www.melissabroder.com

Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern
Author · 20 books
Gerald Stern, the author of seventeen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.
Torrin A. Greathouse
Author · 3 books
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Their work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. Her debut collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound was published from Milkweed Editions in December 2020.
Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Author · 53 books
Donald Hall was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. Donald Hall published numerous books of poetry. Besides poetry, Donald Hall wrote books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He was also the author of children's books. Hall edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. In December 1993 he and his wife poet Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together." In the June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress' fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Liz Berry
Liz Berry
Author · 5 books

Liz Berry was born and lives in London. She worked in offices, magazines, politics and for a well-known examination body, before becoming a careers guidance advisor, helping young people plan their futures and finding employment opportunities for them. Then, for twenty-two years, she was Head of Art in an East London Comprehensive school. At the same time she started and ran the East London Gallery for four years Liz Berry is an artist in oils and mixed media. She also makes experimental embroidered textiles. She exhibits her work mainly in London and southeast England and sells her paintings through Gallery 41.

David Orr
David Orr
Author · 5 books
David Orr is the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review. He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editor’s Prize for Reviewing from Poetrymagazine. Orr’s writing has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Believer, and Pleiades magazine. He holds a B.A. from Princeton and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
David Harsent
David Harsent
Author · 10 books

David Harsent is an English poet and TV scriptwriter. Harsent also writes crime fiction novels under the pseudonyms David Lawrence, David Pascoe and Jack Curtis. He has published eleven collections of poetry which have won several literary prizes and awards. Legion won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards. He lives with his wife, the actress Julia Watson and their daughter in London.

Lucia Perillo
Lucia Perillo
Author · 10 books
Lucia Perillo published five books of poetry. Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A. in English at Syracuse University, and taught at Saint Martin's College, and in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. Her work appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Kenyon Review. Luck Is Luck was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts Prize. A former MacArthur fellow, Perillo lived in Olympia, Washington with her husband.
Martín Espada
Martín Espada
Author · 15 books
Sandra Cisneros says: “Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published thirteen books in all as a poet, essayist, editor and translator. His eighth collection of poems, The Republic of Poetry, was published by Norton in October, 2006. Of this new collection, Samuel Hazo writes: "Espada unites in these poems the fierce allegiances of Latin American poetry to freedom and glory with the democratic tradition of Whitman, and the result is a poetry of fire and passionate intelligence." His last book, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002 (Norton, 2003), received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was named an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. An earlier collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton, 1996), won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other books of poetry include A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (Norton, 2000), City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (Norton, 1993), and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone, 1990). He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the Charity Randall Citation, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and two NEA Fellowships. He recently received a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry. He has also published a collection of essays, Zapata’s Disciple (South End, 1998); edited two anthologies, Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press (Curbstone, 1994) and El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (University of Massachusetts, 1997); and released an audiobook of poetry on CD, called Now the Dead will Dance the Mambo (Leapfrog, 2004). Much of his poetry arises from his Puerto Rican heritage and his work experiences, ranging from bouncer to tenant lawyer. Espada is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.
Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver
Author · 6 books

Afaa Michael Weaver was born Michael S. Weaver and grew up in East Baltimore, the son of a beautician and a steelworker. He entered the University of Maryland–College Park at the age of 16 and studied engineering for two years. He then joined the Army Reserves and worked alongside his father at the Bethlehem Steel mill. His firstborn son died at 10 months of complications from Down syndrome. Weaver worked at the mill and, later, a factory for a total of 15 years, writing poetry on coffee breaks, before publishing his first collection, Water Song (1985). It is a time he describes as a literary apprenticeship, during which he founded 7th Son Press and the journal Blind Alleys. He then earned an MA in theater and playwriting from Brown University, concurrent with a BA from Excelsior College. Influenced by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Harper, and Jay Wright, Weaver writes poetry that engages the intersection of contemporary African American culture, the African American literary tradition, and the technical constraints of contemporary Chinese poetry. “He explores and rethinks questions of identity. Over the years, he has listened to a chorus of other voices, the inflections of the past, as they have come together to shape and enlarge his own distinctive, musical voice,” Ed Hirsch observed of Weaver’s Timber and Prayer (1995). Weaver’s numerous collections of poetry include The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 (2007). He edited the anthology These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002), and co-edited Gathering Voices (1985) with James Taylor and David Beaudouin. Weaver has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He was a Poet-in-Residence at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center and taught as a Fulbright Fellow at National Taiwan University. Among Weaver’s achievements is his invention of a new poetic form, “The Bop,” which he created during a Cave Canem summer retreat. He has taught at Rutgers University, Cave Canem, and Simmons College, where he co-founded the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center and launched the International Chinese Poetry Conference. In 1997, to mark his release from the weight of grief that he had carried since the death of his first son, Weaver chose a new name, Afaa, meaning “oracle,” with the help of Nigerian playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme.

Natalie Shapero
Author · 4 books
Natalie Shapero is a professor of the practice of poetry at Tufts University. Her most recent poetry collection is Hard Child (Copper Canyon, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Her previous collection, No Object (Saturnalia, 2013), received the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a Kenyon Review Fellowship.
Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch
Author · 15 books
Adam Kirsch is the author of two collections of poems and several books of poetry criticism. A senior editor at the New Republic and a columnist for Tablet, he also writes for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Sam Riviere
Sam Riviere
Author · 10 books
Sam Riviere is an English poet and publisher.
Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson
Author · 13 books

Fiona Ruth Sampson, MBE is an English poet and writer. She is published in thirty-seven languages and has received a number of national and international awards for her writing. Sampson was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. She gained a PhD in the philosophy of language from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She advises internationally on creative writing in healthcare, a field whose development she pioneered in a number of projects and publications. As a young poet she was the founder-director of Poetryfest – the Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival and the founding editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Europe. She has received a number of international writers' fellowships: I.A. Literary Association, Skojcan, Slovenia, 2015, Greek Writers’ Union Writers’ and Translators’ House, Paros, 2011, Estonian Writers’ Union House, Kasmu, 2009, Heinrich Boll House, Achill Island, 2005, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 2002, Hawthornden Castle, 2001, Fondacion da Casa de Mateus, Portugal, 2001. She held an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University 2002-5, a CAPITAL Fellowship in Creativity at the University of Warwick 2007-8 and a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Musical Research & Institute of English Studies: 2012-15. From 2005-12, Sampson was the editor of Poetry Review, the oldest and most widely read poetry journal in the UK. She was the first woman editor of the journal since Muriel Spark (1947–49). In January 2013 she founded Poem, a quarterly international review, published by the University of Roehampton, where Sampson is Professor of Poetry and the Director of Roehampton Poetry Centre. She lives in Herefordshire.

Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich
Author · 8 books

Heid E. Erdrich writes and publishes poetry and non-fiction. Her NEW book of poems, Cell Traffic, a new and selected from University of Arizona Press, IS NOW AVAILABLE. Please consider buying it from www.birchbarkbooks.com Heid's most recent book of poems, National Monuments from Michigan State University Press, won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Heid Erdrich teaches writing workshops, often as a guest at various colleges and universities. Each year she leads the Turtle Mountain Writers Workshop on her home reservation in North Dakota. Heid also works with American Indian visual artists as a curator and arts advocate. Author of the play "Curiosities," she collaborates broadly on multi-discilinary performances of other artists as well. Founder of Wiigwaas Press, along with her sister Louise Erdrich and poet James Cihlar, Heid continues to publish Ojibwe language books in an effort to assist in indigenous language revitalization work.

Dunya Mikhail
Dunya Mikhail
Author · 7 books
Born in Iraq in 1965, Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer. Facing increasing threats from the Iraqi authorities, she fled first to Jordan, then to the United States. In 2001, she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Mikhail’s translator Elizabeth Winslow won a 2004 Pen Translation Fund Award for her first book in English, The War Works Hard (2005), which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and was named one of the twenty-five books to remember by the New York Public Library in 2005. New Directions also published Mikhail’s Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea (2009), which won the 2010 Arab American Book Award for poetry. She currently lives in Michigan and works as an Arabic instructor for Michigan State University.
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson
Author · 9 books

Born and raised in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson studied writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her poetry, steeped in the Southern Narrative tradition, bears the influences of Ellen Bryant Voigt, Betty Adcock, and William Faulkner. Of the collection Late Wife (2005), poet Deborah Pope observed, “Like the estranged lover in one of her poems who pitches horseshoes in the dark with preternatural precision, so Emerson sends her words into a different kind of darkness with steely exactness, their arc of perception over and over striking true.” Emerson’s volumes of poetry include Pharaoh, Pharaoh (1997); Pinion: An Elegy (2002); Late Wife (2005), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Figure Studies (2008); and Secure the Shadow (2012). Her honors include two additional Pulitzer Prize nominations as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008 she was appointed poet laureate of Virginia, a two-year role. Emerson was poetry editor for the Greensboro Review and a contributing editor for Shenandoah. She taught at Washington and Lee University, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, and the University of Mary Washington. She died in 2014. From The Poetry Foundation website. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/c...

Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman
Author · 12 books
Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in West Texas. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the Prague School of Economics. In 2003 he became editor of the oldest American magazine of verse, Poetry.
Terrance Hayes
Author · 13 books
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections, including American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, How to Be Drawn, and Lighthead, which won the National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe
Author · 6 books

Hannah Lowe is one of a generation of younger poets whose work celebrates the multicultural life of London and its environs in the eighties and nineties. She writes with a strong sense of place, voice, and emotional subtlety. Lowe was born to an English mother and a Chinese/Jamaican father. She got her BA in American Literature at the University of Sussex, has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies, and is currently working towards a PhD in creative writing.

Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock
Author · 13 books

Molly Peacock is a widely anthologized poet, biographer, memoirist, and New Yorker transplanted to Toronto, her adopted city. Her newest biography is FLOWER DIARY: IN WHICH MARY HIESTER REID PAINTS, TRAVELS, MARRIES & OPENS A DOOR (ECW Press). "In prose as subtle and enchanting as Mary Hiester Reid's own brushstrokes, FLOWER DIARY paints a compelling portrait of a talented and unjustly neglected paiter. Molly Peacock is unfailingly sensitive and intelligent, and at times deeply moving, as she shows how, despite the shade of domestic life and the unfavorable climate of the times, MHR brought forth her bright blossoms," writes Ross King. Molly's latest book of poems is THE ANALYST (W.W. Norton & Company) where she takes up a unique task: telling the story of her psychotherapist who survived a stroke by reconnecting with her girlhood talent for painting. Peacock’s latest work of nonfiction is THE PAPER GARDEN: MRS. DELANY BEGINS HER LIFE'S WORK AT 72, a Canadian bestseller, named a Book of the Year by The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times, The London Evening Standard and Booklist, published in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. “Like her glorious and multilayered collages, Delany is so vivid a character she almost jumps from the page,” Andrea Wulf wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Molly ventured into short fiction with ALPHABETIQUE: 26 CHARACTERISTIC FICTIONS magically illustrated by Kara Kosaka, published by McClelland & Stewart. Her memoir, PARADISE, PIECE BY PIECE, about her choice not to have children, is now an e-book. Molly is featured in MY SO-CALLED SELFISH LIFE, a documentary about choosing to be childfree by Trixifilms, and she is one of the subjects of Renee McCormick’s documentary, A LIFE WITHOUT CONVENTION, https://vimeo.com/178503153. As a New Yorker, she helped create Poetry in Motion on the subways and buses; in Toronto she founded THE BEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH. Molly is the widow of Michael Groden, a James Joyce scholar.

Tom Clark
Tom Clark
Author · 11 books
Clark was an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was educated at the University of Michigan and served as poetry editor of "The Paris Review" from 1963 to 1973 and published numerous volumes of poetry with Black Sparrow Press. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times," "Times Literary Supplement," and many other journals.
Ruby Robinson
Ruby Robinson
Author · 2 books
Ruby Robinson studied English literature at the University of East Anglia and is a graduate of the Sheffield Hallam University Writing MA.
Danielle Chapman
Danielle Chapman
Author · 2 books
Danielle Chapman is the author of the poetry collection Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press 2015). Her poetry has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic, Harvard Review, and The Nation, and The New Yorker. She is a critic as well as a poet, and her reviews have appeared in Poetry and the New York Times. Chapman directed the publishing-industry programs for the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture from 2007 to 2012. She lives in New Haven with her husband and twin daughters and teaches at Yale University.
Tacey Atsitty
Author · 2 books

Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People) from Cove, AZ. She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, Morning Star Creative Writing Award, and the Philip Freund Prize. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Literary Hub, New Poets of Native Nations, and other publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). She lives in Utah.

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