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Today's Featured Poem: "Phusis" by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, from the September 2024 Issue of Poetry (POETRY magazine). Read here: poems.com/poem/phusis/

I waited for the snow but it never snowed it just got colder & colder —Josh English in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4fb0IoB

She mirrored a deep Blackness that had little to do with color and everything to do with being a diasporic Black descendant of slaves brought to America. —Sapphire on the firespitter, Jayne Cortez. bit.ly/4fukHOK CW: Racial violence

& the goal is to get there again & again. —@maireadsmst in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3CeMswm

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I wander the streets, a stranger to my own slowness. All the neighborhood cats reel in —Darius Atefat-Peckham in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3Cesulp

I’ve always admired poems that dare me not to be there, as if my being there was of no consequence; poems that fail to notice me; poems that even actively deride me. —Randall Mann in the November issue of POETRY. CW: Sexual content bit.ly/3YxcWko

His poems are busted by history and fractured by time. The past doesn’t stay in the earth where it belongs, and when you dig up a piece, it holds anything but neat archaeological layers. —Alexander Wells (@ajbwells) on the German poet Lutz Seiler. bit.ly/3AFjpS7

Tell him Miss Dinah’s back in town and she’s waiting just for you —Jayne Cortez in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4fozPxi CW: Strong language

I failed to measure how many steps it took to walk my heart’s wanting back to front, though I paced it over and over. —Jane Hirshfield in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3C7QIO8

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Congratulations to the 2024 POETRY Magazine prize winners! 🎉 Ishion Hutchinson 🎉 Tayi Tibble 🎉 Jackie Sabbagh 🎉 Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 🎉 Monika Cassel 🎉 Danielle Vogel 🎉 Joe Alicea 🎉 Melvin Dixon 🎉 Kate Asche Read their prize-winning work: bit.ly/3CAFKRF

Biliyorum benimle gelen gemi Benimle gitmeyecek. I know the ship I came on Won’t leave with me. —Rüştü Onur (trans. by Ulas Ozgun and Homer's eyes 🦅) in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3Af6Qgs

sie braucht sich nur fallen zu lassen Kirschen und Trauben she just needs to let herself fall cherries and grapes —Annette C. Boehm in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/48DD5Ti

Again, what’s wrong here is exactly right, and thus irritation is our gateway to poetry’s pleasure. —Graham Foust in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4ftORSc

John palpitating love notes in a lost-found nation within a nation His music resounding discovery signed Always John Coltrane —Jayne Cortez in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3CctFSl CW: Strong language

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