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  • Essay
    By Sandra Simonds

    From the beginning of his career, Bill Knott presented himself as an outsider, an underdog, and a combative "minor poet." 

    A black-and-white photograph of the poet Bill Knott reading a book in a messy room piled with books, newspapers, and furniture.
  • Poem Guide
    By Tyler Malone

    For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.

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  • Essay
    By Matthew Spencer

    Wolfgang Hilbig wrote poems of gothic lyricism while laboring in Germany's bleak industrial landscapes.

    A black-and-white photograph of Wolfgang Hilbig in a dark coat and gloves, a satchel over his shoulder. Behind him is a desolate country landscape.
  • Essay
    By Megan Milks

    The links between queer memory, activism, and transpoetics in Julian Carter’s Dances of Time and Tenderness.  

    A black-and-white collage of hands affixing chains to a large human heart.
  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Carl Phillips

    Loneliness, then, means understanding—and accepting, though some days this is only slightly easier than others—that no one knows me. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Meghan O’Rourke

    It is the voice of both our lives and our unled lives. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Joe Carrick-Varty

    He should be here to do the lifetime of things he still had left to do, one of them being to bring his incredible book into the world, to see...

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  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Kwame Dawes & Saddiq Dzukogi

    Writing teachers like to encourage writers to surprise themselves. The truth is this is such an impractical hope. 

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Adrian Matejka

    Early in my poetry journey, I lived in Seattle and had a few writing rituals that made me feel like a Poet. One was visiting  Jimi Hendrix’s grave.

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By K.B. Thors

    Memorializing the dangerous wilderness journeys of Icelandic midwives through poetry.

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