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September 2022

On Monuments; Cover Artist: Weshoyot Alvitre

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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  • Kenzie Allen
  • A. Van Jordan
  • Walter Ancarrow
  • Martín Tonalmeyotl
  • Daniela Ema Aguinsky
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A cover of Poetry magazine on a lavender background. In the top left corner are two rows of text that read: Poetry September 2022. In the top right corner is a black pegasus emblem. The word ‘Poetry’ is spelled out in a grid, two letters at a time in thre
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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Nestora Salgado

      By Martín Tonalmeyotl
      Onen itlajkotsian ueyekojyokaj
      niman okiselej se tekuane uan kiitas ken itonal.
      Itech se tlaltsintle okitokak xochitl kan
      tlakuayaj papalomej
      niman ika inmastlakapaltsitsiuan on papalomej
      onotlakente sa pontok.

      Kuak xe kana kisaya
      okonik atsintle uan tlachijchijtle ika
      ineluayotsitsiuan olinkojtle,
      kojtsintle uan noye ajuiyak niman uan ika
      okinchipaj itlajtoltsitsiuan,
      kema onotsopelijkej, onomastlakapaliotijkej
      niman opajpatlankej.

      Yajua...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Treaties and Monuments: The Whim of Ephemeral Contracts, or A War Department Map Looks like the Fingerprint of All My Relations

      By Kierstin Bridger

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      This place is an impression
      left by the friction-ridges
      of a human battle.

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Non-cento from the Bureau of the Library of Alexandria

      By Lucas Jorgensen

      Brigit Pegeen Kelly said it burned. Hera Lindsay Bird said it burned in alphabetical order. There’s nothing left about it to say. To say, “there’s nothing left about it to say” is awfully similar to what Alberto Ríos said about...

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