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By Esther Belin
The process of knowing how to instrument this information and motivation was the logic behind grafting myself into the Poetry Foundation.
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- From Poetry MagazineBy Srikanth Reddy
Through it all, I came to learn that literary magazines are more like ordinary families, and less like historical dynasties, than I’d previously imagined.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Suzi F. GarciaI now realize that growth cannot happen overnight, nor should it. It must be built with the goal of sustainability. As anyone in nonprofit work can tell you, burnout...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Su ChoI don’t know how to make a home. It feels jarring to say that, but I realize I’ve always had my eye on the next thing, the next project, and that I’m not sure how to...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Ashley M. Jones
And so now, here I was, shouldering all that and now shouldering an enormous magazine. How could I make a safe space for myself, for others?
- From Poetry MagazineBy Charif Shanahan
For our November issue, we are looking for original poems that engage directly with notions of lineage and influence.
- From Poetry MagazineBy The EditorsApril is Poetry Month, which means it’s also a great time for free poetry! Free Poetry for Everyone We’re thrilled to offer a free download of the April 2023 issue of...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Charif ShanahanPoetry reminds me, daily, of the simultaneous singularity and plurality of human experience: for all our differences, for the ways in which we have attached meaning ...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Tré Seals
Uniformity cannot exist in a typeface inspired by humanity.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Adrian Matejka
I want to begin this editor’s note with gratitude.
- From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors
If you’re new to the app, now is a great time to check it out since the October issue (our 110th anniversary issue) is currently FREE!
- From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors
Poetry magazine was founded 110 years ago this month, and in celebration of this milestone, we’re offering our readers lots of special content and freebies.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Anthony CodyIn my insistence on being the poet/essayist, I had managed to make myself the hero, to assume that I knew better than the poem. Perhaps this is in the western colonial...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Yaccaira Salvatierra
I had not been writing and, truthfully, I was contemplating abandoning poetry after decades of coming back to it time and time again.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Jessica Kim
Although love is less frequent in my mother tongue, it lasts longer.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Hajar HussainiI have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it might...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Sarah Ghazal AliWhen my father explained that I was named for an elevated poetic form, that an entire region’s poetic pride was embedded in my name, ghazals became a source of wonder...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos
We invited contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us about a favorite poem in their “original” language, or in their “adopted” literary language.
- From Poetry MagazineBy Holly AmosWe invited contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us how they began writing poetry in a “non-native,” or second, or other language, and why (in 100 words or fewer...
- From Poetry MagazineBy Holly AmosWe invited all contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us the story--or a story--about learning the language that they’ve adopted for poetry (in 100 words...