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“Knees of a Natural Man” by Henry Dumas

Excerpts from “dogs!”byDanez Smith in the March 2018 issue of Poetrymagazine.

[image: Text excerpts from the poem, available by clicking “dogs!” in the text above. The second stanza in the second image is text at angles that intersects each other, saying “ruff ruff motherfuckaaaaa!!” All other stanzas are text blocks.]

A selection of photos from 55 x 5byAlan Thomas in the March 2018 issue of Poetry magazine.

“Song of the coral brain” by Gregory O’BrienandJohn Puhiatau Pule in the February 2018 issue of Poetrymagazine.

From “Words Are a Gas” by Dylan Horrocks in the February 2018 issue of Poetrymagazine.

Gorgeous photos of our #CTApoets at “L” stops around Chicago by Intersection. If you see them on your commute, tag your photos with our special hashtag. Experience more poetry at http://poetryfoundation.org/cta

Our#CTApoets are brightening snowy commutes at “L” stops across Chicago. Be on the lookout, and tag what you see with our special hashtag. Learn more about this campaign, and see the rest of the slideshow on our website.

Three photographs from Durs Grünbein’s poem “The Doctrine of Photography,” translated from the German by Karen Leeder, in the December 2017 issue of Poetry. 

From“BalloonCloudBubble”: Deadsheets by Mark Laliberte. Find more of his visual  poems in the December 2017 issue of Poetry magazine.

“These pictures are all squares, taken on an old Rolleiflex film 
camera — I am guessing fifties vintage — that produces a square-shaped image two and a quarter inches, or six centimeters all around. It lacks the porous elasticity of the lithe, more common rectangular format. Tension is created by this formality and bounces around within the frame. For me, the square was like using an alien vernacular; dealing with extra space which shouldn’t be there and a lack of space where it should be. I shot them as part of a wider project on Ireland that became the book The Republic (2016), an exile’s look at Ireland one hundred years after her revolutionary Easter Rising of 1916.” —Seamus Murphy, “Two and a Quarter” (Poetry, October 2017)

#ICYMI The 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows have a special folio in the December 2018 issue of Poetry! Exciting new work from Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Paul Tran is available in the print and digital issues, as well as on our website.

[image: A brightly-colored illustration of the five 2018 Fellos around a table, all looking at the viewer or out of the frame. They appear to be very high up, as blue skies and clouds can be seen through large windows behind them. There are several flowers and green plants in the scene, as well as books, bottles, and a candelabra. They appear to be in a modern apartment.]

Go down a rabbit hole with Franny Choi, Danez Smith, and guest Kimiko Hahn on the new episode of VS!

[image: Red background with white text reading, “There are all sorts of ways of exploding things open —Kimiko Hahn, Season 2, Episdoe 12. Bottom right has the VS logo.]

Excerpt from “LISP” by sam sax, one of the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship recipients. Read the complete poem in the September 2018 issue of Poetry magazine.

[image: Text of the poem “LISP”. Features text in a near perfect block, with forward slashes interrupting the text, as if to indicate a line break or motion. Full poem behind link.]

The schedule of this year’s Chicago Poetry Block Party is now live! If you’re in Chicago, join us for this free celebration of poetry, music, art, and community at Austin Town Hall on Saturday, July 28.

From“To Float in the Space Between”byTerrance Hayes in the July/August issueofPoetry.

[image: Ink drawings on white lined paper (as if from a notebook) in the segmented style of comic panels, with text from the Etheridge Knight poem “For Langston Hughes.” First image has a series of figures walking in a line across a landscape of varied shapes and textures with the title of the poem handwritten in the sky above them, followed by the line, “Another weaver of black dreams has gone.” Second image is a close portrait of a man or two men across several panels in a background of silhouettes and shapes with some continuing text from the poem, “we sat in June Bug’s pad with the shades drawn/ and the air thick with holy smoke.”]

From “Elemental Gratitude” by Eric Gansworth in the June 2018 Native Poets issueofPoetry.

[image: First image is a drawing of a round plaque mounted on a stone wall with a fish or an eel curled in a circle and eating its own tail, encircling an image of a purple human figure with concentric red hearts. Below the plaque is a pool of water and a small fire; above it, a lightning storm can be seen through a hole in the wall. Second image is a drawing of two people in profile looking to the right. There are what appears to be atomic or celestial models in the top right and lower left corners. Above the people, a brain is split open down the middle like a geode and a string of steam or smoke connects the two halves. Top right above the brain is text that reads, “The Corpus Callosum allows for communication between the seat of reason and the land of DREAMS.”]

PhotographsbySherwin Bitsui from the June 2018 Native Poets issue of Poetry.

[image: Three black-and-white images. First image is a hand with bracelets and cuffs on the wrist holding what appears to be a curved piece of wood above the horizon at the edge of a shore, making it look like a boar hovering above the water. Second image is a triangular object in shadow coming to a point at the sun breaking through clouds. Third image is a person wearing sunglasses sitting in front of a tipi in a chair with one leg crossed over the other.]

“Quilts”byLayli Long Soldier from the June 2018 Native Poets issue of Poetry.

[image: First image is a wide shot of two quilts hanging on a wall, both are in the shape of eight-pointed stars. One quilt’s bottom half is black and the top has one quadrant of white and one red with black and white markings all over and a smaller eight-pointed star in the center (top half yellow and bottom half white); the other quilt is all black and white. Second image is a close up of the color quilt’s center star, revealing that the markings are pressed insects. Third image is a close up of the black quilt, which has an all-black center star with buffalo and shapes around it. Fourth image show that the markings on the black quilt are words, perhaps forming a poem.]

From“We Build a City” byKinga Tóth, published in the May 2018 issue of Poetry.

[image: White back ground with black text, black line work of arrows, and other sharp shapes, and what appear to be ink spots and smears. First image’s text begins, “HOW THEY COMMUNICATE // HOW THEY PROGRAM,” and the language breaks down from there.]

“Series of Pictures” by Joel Lipman, published in the May 2018 issue of Poetry.

[image: Yellowing pages of what appears to be a dictionary. The page includes the entries from “incubus” to “knee,” and some of the entries include illustrations. Stamped over the page in blue letters are the words, “SERIES OF PICTURES SHOWN IN QUICK SUCCESSION.” Some of the words have stamped red arrows pointing from them to other words, additional stamped images in other colors, or the illustrations on the page.]

A selection from Dora Malech’s “TEST” in the May 2018 issue of Poetry.

[image: Black line work of varying details and textures on a white background. First segment features block text made of small geometric lines, “AS BABY/ TESTS/ AT BEST/ ABYSS.” Second segment is more spaced out, the text varying between stencil-like outlines and typewriter font. Some stencils letters are bunched together so as to make the words unclear. Clear text reads, “Had no fuel–/I’m/A/Sinner/written off/as a minor note.”]