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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineChinese Time

    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Oh, but Poet crosses eternal
    distances. Perfect reader, come though 1,000
    years from now. Poem can also…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine中國時間

    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Translated By Chun Yu
    哦,而詩人跨越永恆的
    距離。完美的讀者,即使千年
    之後,也會到來。詩歌也可
    藉由願望抵達千年前的讀者。 
    李白和杜甫,幸運的海龜, 
    在有生之年找到了彼此。哦,這是 
    中國時間和中國詩人的希望。但你
    不必是詩人;你…
  • Article
    By Joyelle McSweeney

    The first English-language translation of Tove Ditlevsen's poetry distills the intensity and mordant humor that make her one of Denmark's most revered exports.

    An illustration of Tove Ditlevsen in an orange and black blouse, smoking a cigarette.
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Four poets on old stories, cultural memory, and minority languages.
  • Article
    By Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, Beth Piatote & Jake Skeets

    The gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.

  • Article
    By Laura Tohe

    When I write in Diné bizaad the sounds come from the center of what it means to be Diné. Diné bizaad bee yashti. Diné bizaad bee hadínisht’é.

  • Article

    poetry-magazineWord Made Real

    By Natanya Ann Pulley

    We must accept a holiness in the language of space and silence.

  • Poem
    By Dorothy Parker
    Unto seventy years and seven,
       Hide your double birthright well—
    You, that are the brat of Heaven
       And …
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    I was thinking of some of the messages Rilke will never receive: — dentist called abt your appt tomorrow…
  • Poem
    By Carol Ann Duffy
    At childhood’s end, the houses petered out
    into playing fields, the factory, allotments
    kept, like mistresses…
  • Poem
    By Ama Codjoe
    What if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand
    grenade—I mean, what if after
    the loaded gun that takes two hands
    to fire, I lay down the splintered broom
    and the steel so cold it wets
    my cheek? What if I unclench the valleys
    of my...
  • Article
    By Daegan Miller

    Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Hannah Arendt facing the camera while holding a lit cigarette.
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff in the words of people who loved them.
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