POETRY Magazine cover of March 2018 issue

March 2018

 
  • Carla Panciera
  • Eileen Myles
  • Martín Espada
  • Kaveh Akbar
  • Danez Smith
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From this Issue

Poem
Kant says time is neither event nor thing.

Well, I think. That’s that.

But then Teresa calls.
She’s found my old letters.
There are dead dogs in them, old boyfriends;
the miscarriage is happening
(has happened)
and I have to catch a plane.
The plane has    ...
Poem
gravity accounts for the distance between weight
and mass it can also mean alarming importance      human
bones are so full of gravity it’s hard for us to
swim I lost my glasses chasing a branch in the ocean
which is far too...
Poem
friends! if i may interrupt right quick

i know y’all working, busy smoking & busy
trying not to smoke, busy with the kids & moms

& busy with alone, but i have just seen
two boys — yes, black — on bikes — also — summer children
basketball shorts & they outside shoes,...
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