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Here's to fresh flowers and fresh poetry! 💐 Our May issue includes a foldout by Kate Asche, a new essay on persona poems by Michael Frazier, and a Leila Chatti ( @laypay ) Mad Lib poem. Cover art by Lynne Yun of @spacetypeco . Read it all here:

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Darlings, if your owners say you are / not usually like this / then I must take them / at their word —Hanif Abdurraqib

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all this I read in the papers, in the sunlight, I read with my cold, sharp eyes. —Mary Oliver

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Submissions to POETRY are now open! 📝

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did our grandmothers flee the fields of embers so we could find each other here? friend, you are the war’s gentle consequence —Danez Smith

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Sometimes I don’t believe I exist until someone calls me beautiful. —Hieu Minh Nguyen 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow

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I wish I was only as cruel as the first time I noticed I was cruel —Kaveh Akbar in the March 2018 issue

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I am in the mood / to be forgotten. —Hanif Abdurraqib in the May 2018 issue

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Spend some time with the work of Native poets for #IndigenousPeoplesDay2018 (and every day after!)

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my country is made in my people’s image if they come for you they come for me too —Fatimah Asghar

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I balk. I lazy the bed. I wallow when I write. I truth when I lie. I throw a book when a poem undoes me. —Tiana Clark

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because you kiss the parts of my body I hate most —Eloisa Amezcua

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Submit to POETRY's Collaborative Issue edited by Su Cho! Show us the active exchange through collaborative poems, epistolary exchange, call and response, ekphrasis, multiple translations and mistranslations, and forms not yet defined. Deadline: 7/1

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I wished I had seed to toss into that green, just to see what would root. —Katie Farris @katiefar

What Would Root by Katie Farris | Poetry Magazine

Walking through a cathedral of oak trees

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i was mothered by lonely women some of them wives —Safia Elhillo

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you think Oscar Wilde was funny well Darling I think he was busy distracting straight people so they would not kill him —CAConrad

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i was born at the rupture —Safia Elhillo

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I’ve been afraid, forever, of performing my identity incorrectly. —Safia Elhillo

Good Muslim/Bad Muslim by Safia Elhillo | Poetry Magazine

Introducing The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 3: Halal If You Hear Me.

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I know better than to leave the house without my good dress, my good knife —Paul Tran

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I watch her pull at her body & it is mine. My heavy breast. My disappointing shape. —Hieu Minh Nguyen

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POETRY's June issue cover art by Weshoyot Alvitre @weshoyot

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at the end of the world, let there be you, my world —Danez Smith

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No one believes that I know what I know because sometimes I miss a part or tell it sideways. Some people get stuck on the first thing you say and they don’t let you finish your syllogism. — @richardsiken in the October issue of POETRY.

Sidewalk by Richard Siken | Poetry Magazine

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"Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone" —Tarik Dobbs @mxrlevant

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Many congratulations to Tracy K. Smith, our new Poet Laureate!

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Don Share, editor of POETRY magazine, has announced he is stepping aside.

Announcement of Changes to POETRY Magazine | Poetry Foundation

Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine, has announced he is stepping aside, effective at summer’s end to ensure operations are uninterrupted as a search for his replacement begins. “I hope that...

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POETRY is proud to present our February issue, “The Practice of Freedom." The issue is devoted to the work of currently and formerly incarcerated people, their families, and the artists, poets, and teachers who work in carceral spaces. [1/2]

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to all my dead, i’ll see you again soon. to all my living, let bygones be gone by the time you take this next breath. —sam sax

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye by Sam… | Poetry Magazine

goodbye city. goodbye stoop. goodbye rush hour traffic plume.

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When I cannot bear to read the news, I read poetry instead. I listen to recordings, recite my favorite poems, mutter them to myself in supermarket aisles, and quote them on social media or in letters or emails to my friends. — @AriaAber

On Language as Balm by Aria Aber | Poetry Foundation

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Aria Aber’s “Mother of All Balms” appears in the September 2019 issue. Previous posts in this series can be found on...

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I’m trying to be real but it costs too much. —Ocean Vuong

Not Even This by Ocean Vuong | Poetry Magazine

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If someone is going to make it out of this dream alive, let it be you — @Vanessid

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And of all the things we’re dying from tonight, being alive is the strangest... —Li-Young Lee

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Oh, I said, this is going to be. And it was. Oh, I said, this will never happen. But it did. —Mary Ruefle

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and this grief that has no release— grows inward rooting into my spine, and from my head sprouts a flower of gossamer blood threads, — @cathyparkhong in the September issue.

From “Spring and All” by Cathy Park Hong | Poetry Magazine

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[what if i will not die] [what will govern me then] —Safia Elhillo

From “Girls That Never Die” by Safia Elhillo | Poetry Magazine

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We're so sad to learn of the passing of recent contributor Meena Alexander, and send love to all who knew her. "The many births you have passed through, try to remember them as I do mine / Memory is all you have."

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I learned quickly that poetry does not have to be about flowers or trees when there is a poverty line, when there are hands without gloves in the winter, when there is always something we are running toward. —Kara Jackson

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Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is. —Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet

How Dark the Beginning by Maggie Smith | Poetry Magazine

All we ever talk of is light—

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We’re excited to announce that Lindsay Garbutt ( @GarbLs ) is now our Managing Editor and Holly Amos ( @amoshmarie ) is now Associate Editor! Congrats to both! 🎉 🎉

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POETRY's October 2022 issue is now live! This issue marks the 110th anniversary of the magazine and the start of @adrian_matejka 's tenure as editor. 🎉 Cover art by @IsipXin .

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our mothers / petals wrung for their perfume —Safia Elhillo

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i know you hate the domestic in poetry but you should have thought of that before you invited me to move in with you —Hera Lindsay Bird

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Around the world, much is still uncertain. We remain committed to bringing you poetry that speaks to this time, this moment. Read along with us throughout #NationalPoetryMonth and download our April issue for FREE in the Poetry Magazine App on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon.

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Everyone's favorite sneak peek is here 🔥Introducing the June issue of POETRY:

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I thought I was not a political poet and still my imagination was political. —Jameson Fitzpatrick

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Not only is our March issue online, but we're now also open for submissions for the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. Details here:

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There’s so much coffee There’s plenty of coffee I wish someone was here. —Eileen Myles @EileenMyles

Göteborg by Eileen Myles | Poetry Magazine

Came home and lost

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"Cootie Catcher" by Leila Chatti @laypay Download this poem and its the instructions to print or share

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The December issue of POETRY features new work from the 5 recipients of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. We'll be tweeting their work through tomorrow— stay tuned!

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You want a door you can be on both sides of at once. —Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet

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Again the day begins, only no one wants its sanity or its blinding clarity. —Philip Levine

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The Board of Directors of the Poetry Foundation have accepted the resignation of Foundation President Henry Bienen with gratitude for his years of service; it is effective immediately. In addition, Willard Bunn III is stepping down as Board chair.

Announcement of Leadership Changes | Poetry Foundation

The Board of Directors of the Poetry Foundation has accepted the resignation of Foundation President Henry Bienen with gratitude for his years of service; it is effective immediately. In addition,...

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Call for submissions for a forthcoming issue dedicated to the work of transgender, gender non-conforming, and other non-cis poets, guest-edited by Christopher Soto @loma_poetry

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Before the apocalypse, the apocalypse of bees. The apocalypse of buses. Border fence apocalypse. Coat hanger apocalypse. Apocalypse in the textbooks’ selective silences. —Franny Choi @fannychoir

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When I sit down to write, sometimes it’s with a pen and paper, or perhaps a typewriter — sometimes it’s with a guitar —Margo Price

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Congratulations to guest editor Ashley M. Jones ( @ashberry813 ) on being named the new Poet Laureate of Alabama! 🎊

Ashley M. Jones of Birmingham selected as state’s new poet laureate

Published works include 'Magic City Gospel'

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Grief will probably redraft your whole anatomy —Carolina Ebeid

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POETRY magazine is accepting submissions for a special issue of young people's poetry, which will be edited by current Young People’s Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Acevedo. Learn more and submit by April 30. GIF by Monique Wray.

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The Poetry Foundation and POETRY magazine stand in solidarity with the Black community, and denounce injustice and systemic racism. Read our full statement here:

A Message to Our Community & Contributors | Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine stand in solidarity with the Black community, and denounce injustice and systemic racism. As an organization we recognize that there is much work to be...

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The J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, in the amount of $5,000, is awarded to Karisma Price @itsKayPrice for her poem in the June 2020 issue.

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May 👏 issue 👏 is 👏 here

May 2020 | Poetry Magazine | Poetry Foundation

Safia Elhillo, TC Tolbert, Mary Ruefle, Inua Ellams, Srikanth Reddy, Kyle Carrero Lopez, Stuart Barnes, D. M. Spratley, Desirée Alvarez, Ricki Cummings, Jennifer L. Knox, Daniel Poppick, Raymond...

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Someone I loved said to stop with the oceans in my poems — well, oceans + oceans + oceans! —Tarfia Faizullah

Infinity Ghazal Beginning with Lice and Never… | Poetry Magazine

For Hasna Henna and the Rohingya

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Revealing a racial marker in a poem is like revealing a gun in a story or like revealing a nipple in a dance. —Monica Youn

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sound shapes how we think about objects / the mouth shapes how sound spills out —sam sax

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i know our stories are heavier than stones, but you must carry them with you —Craig Santos Perez

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I confess to sleeping coiled on my night- blue prayer mat more often than I stand bent in ruku. —Sarah Ghazal Ali @caesarah_

My Faith Gets Grime under Its Nails by Sarah Ghazal… | Poetry Magazine

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POETRY's March 2023 issue is now live! Edited by @adrian_matejka , this issue features a portfolio devoted to Ann Lauterbach and new poems from Dorothea Lasky, KB Brookins, Terrance Hayes and more! 🌷 Cover art by @AyaKakeda . Read it here:

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I have wanted all the world, its beauties and its injuries; some days, I think that is punishment enough. —Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa

Dear Life by Maya C. Popa | Poetry Magazine

I can’t undo all I have done unto myself,

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After years of repression, I can come clean. I was a boy with a hole other boys stuffed themselves into. —Luther Hughes

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Her notes, that winding charred necklace, encircling us. The bird was not black. It was the color of fire absent smoke. —Alina Stefanescu @aliner

Poem for the Black Bird by Alina Stefanescu | Poetry Magazine

Today I wept with the kids as we drove

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Isn't every day #WorldPoetryDay ?

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The earth said remember me. I am the earth it said. Re- member me. —Jorie Graham @jorie_graham

Poem by Jorie Graham | Poetry Magazine

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with you is, has always been (so unalone, so, unsingular) home, at last —Tom Pickard @tompickardpoet

Yem by Tom Pickard | Poetry Magazine

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I wanted to write an epic about suffering, but when I found a tendril of her hair among the ruins of her mud house, I found my epic there. —Dunya Mikhail

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& I wonder if they’re still having a good laugh, like when they found out I wanted to be a poet & so they glued roses & violets to the hood of my Kia —Hieu Minh Nguyen

Of all the things I’ve tried to do by Hieu Minh… | Poetry Magazine

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To walk cemetery after cemetery in these States and nary a gravestone reading Solmaz To know no nation will be home until one does —Solmaz Sharif in the April 2018 issue

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what a beautiful bo’y still a bo’y but a fierce bo’y now a royal bo’y now a bo’y worthy of being called queen —Justice Ameer

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Applications for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships are now open! Deadline: April 30, 2020. APPLY!

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Listen to my fear, blooming in the vase of my chest, and listen to how I water it. —Helen Mort @HelenMort

Push the button, hear the sound by Helen Mort | Poetry Magazine

Listen to the lorikeet’s whistling song.

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I catalog what I cannot capture: the sun, its ragged stumble into rockface, the precise elevation of this plateau or the next, the sea, of course, against which everything is measured. —Donika Kelly ( @officialdonika ) in the June issue of POETRY.

What Is the Measure by Donika Kelly | Poetry Magazine

I catalog what I cannot capture:

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POETRY contributor Marilyn Chin ( @poetmarilynchin ) is the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize!

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The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce Marilyn Chin ( @poetmarilynchin ) as the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Saskia Hamilton as the winner of the 2020 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism! 🎉 🎉 [📷 Jon Medel]

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Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. When I die, I promise to haunt you forever. —Noor Hindi @MyNrhindi

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Do you have a passion for poetry and people, a genuine excitement about reading and editing, and a commitment to amplifying the voices of those who face injustice? Our Guest Editor role may be for you. Applications are now open!

Jobs | Poetry Foundation

Job listings for the Poetry Foundation.

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As a carpenter, Jesus made chairs, tables, shelves—investigating, all the while, the role of nails in forgiveness. — @Pamilerinjacob in the January/February issue of POETRY.

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I fucking depended on you and you left the fucking wheelbarrow out and it’s fucking raining and now the white chickens are fucking filthy —Mary Ruefle

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New year, new issue of POETRY: the January 2023 issue is now live! Edited by @adrian_matejka , this issue features a special folio on the work of Bert Meyers and so many beautiful poems to welcome 2023 in style. Cover art by @kane_one_ Read it here:

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Give me a church made entirely of salt. — Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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I count all the oceans, blood & not-blood, all the people I could be, the whole map, my mirror —Fatimah Asghar

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I give myself to it. Why else be in a body? —Chana Bloch, RIP

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people have left you in silence and without reason but presumably because of your intensity, —Cindy Juyoung Ok in the December issue.

Surviving Inklings by Cindy Juyoung Ok | Poetry Magazine

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What is the metaphor for two animals sharing the same space? Marriage? —Donika Kelly

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From "I Understand This Light to Be My Home" —Mai Der Vang @maider_vang

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i be but i don’t is. —Nate Marshall

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From "Map Concurrences" —Tino Zhang

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I used to think that a dead person’s words die with them. Now I know that they scatter, looking for meaning to attach to like a scent. —Victoria Chang @VChangPoet

OBIT by Victoria Chang | Poetry Magazine

My Mother’s Teeth—died twice, once in 1965, all pulled out from

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It came so close to something nameless. I needed the omnivorous metaphor, a golden omen. — Alina Stefanescu @aliner

Poem for the Black Bird by Alina Stefanescu | Poetry Magazine

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but I did not forget what I was beneath the cover of the flesh: five million faggy mountains slicing through fields full of dreamed-up tongues and unnamable bluish grasses —Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Birthday Suits by J. Jennifer Espinoza | Poetry Magazine

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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. —Raymond Carver, born #onthisday (POETRY, Feb 1985)

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And although I am a poet, I am not the bullet —Elizabeth Acevedo

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We’re pleased to announce our March 2021 issue, “Young People’s Poetry,” edited by the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poets Laureate: Margarita Engle @margaritapoet , Naomi Shihab Nye @YPPLaureate , and Jacqueline Woodson @JackieWoodson .

March 2021 | Poetry Magazine | Poetry Foundation

Kara Jackson, Luis Salgado, Suma Subramaniam, Mariana Llanos, Tanaya Winder, Cedar Sigo, Cornelius Eady, Ari Tison, Nour Al Ghraowi, Pat Mora, Mosab Abu Toha, Kimberly Blaeser, Elizabeth Acevedo,...

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CONGRATULATIONS to Fatimah Asghar, Sumita Chakraborty, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Roy G. Guzmán & Emily Jungmin Yoon!

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