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. Unquote.From the magazine:Karma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror
From the magazine:A Conversation with My Mother About the Bloodstains on My Shirt
From the magazine:there are no toothbrushes in heaven
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From the magazine:It’s ComplicatedBy Rigoberto GonzálezI blushed because I had completely forgotten something that I had put out into the world.
- PoemFrom the magazine:Charity BallsBy Cynthia CruzI had a fellowship but lived poorly
On cheap beer and penny candy.
Later, a career of killing time.
But… 
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Translating Ye Hui
By Dong LiA metaphysical poet of myths and mysteries.
Hard Feelings Essays
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From the magazine:On Shame: In the Realm of Death and Awe
My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Neediness: Midnight Chimes
What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Despair: It’s All a Charade
If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Contempt: I Want to Be Liked
I want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
From the magazine:On Pettiness: About Those Flying Buttresses
When asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemFrom the magazine:
a remix for remembrance
By Kristiana Rae ColónThis is for the boys whose bedrooms are in the basement,
who press creases into jeans, who carve their names in pavement,
the girls whose names are ancient, ancestry is sacred,
the Aztec and the Mayan gods abuela used to pray with
This is... - PoemFrom the magazine:
Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues
By Joy HarjoIn the United terminal in Chicago at five on a Friday afternoon
The sky is breaking with rain and wind and all the flights
Are delayed forever. We will never get to where we are going
And there’s no way back to where... - PoemFrom the magazine:
Like Judith Slaying Holofernes
By Paul TranI know better than to leave the house
without my good dress, my good knife
like Excalibur between my stone breasts.
Mother would have me whipped,
would have me kneeling on rice until
I shrilled so loud I rang the church
bells. Didn’t I tell you...
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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