National Poetry Month Special: Free Downloads of Our April 2020 Issue and More

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer our readers a free download of the April 2020 issue of Poetry! You can find the free issue in the Poetry Magazine App, available through the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon.

The April 2020 issue features a suite of poems by Nobel Prize recipient Nelly Sachs, translated by Joshua Wiener with Linda B. Parshall; a poetry comic by Bianca Stone that illustrates Gertrude Stein’s “A Little Called Pauline”; a portfolio of poems by Madeline Gins, the poet, novelist, artist, philosopher, and speculative architect, introduced by Lucy Ives; and an essay by Joy Ladin on conveying divinity in poetry and “why a divine being who had no body would bother with gender at all.” Read through the whole issue for new poems by Ocean Vuong, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Michael Hofmann, Harmony Holiday, Joshua Bennett, torrin a. greathouse, Tishani Doshi, Pascale Petit, Sun Yung Shin, and many others.

In the app, you can listen to this month’s Poetry Magazine Podcast, hosted by the editors, with readings by Joy Ladin, Tishani Doshi, Michael Hofmann, and Ocean Vuong. Later this month, you’ll also find a playlist for the issue, curated by Doshi, and plenty of recommendations in our latest Reading List, as well as a blog post from Sumita Chakraborty. If you download the app, we’ll send you a notification when this bonus content is available.

Once you download the Poetry Magazine App, be sure to check back each month. Each issue will have select content available for free and each individual issue will be available for purchase. Poetry subscribers can access all the digital issues and the extras in the app for free as part of our print/digital bundle—just enter your email address when prompted to log in. Not a subscriber? Sign up now with our special National Poetry Month offer: only $20 for 11 issues ($32 for international subscribers).

There is nothing like seeing the latest issue of Poetry in your mailbox or at your local bookstore, but we hope you’ll love seeing the magazine in this accessible digital format too. It allows you to read Poetry wherever you go, even offline, and it offers new ways of discovering, saving, and sharing the poems you love. If you have any comments or questions, please email us at [email protected].

Speaking of sharing: check in with us daily on Twitter to read our Poem of the Day series “Together and by Ourselves,” a collection of 12 classic and contemporary poems that try to speak to our current moment.